While Chinese chipmaker Hygon may not currently have a processor that surpasses the best CPUs, it seems only a matter of time before it introduces a very competitive chip. Recently, Thunderobot launched the Black Warrior Hunter Pro, China's first gaming PC powered by a domestic Hygon C86-4G processor, which appears to deliver performance close to that of Intel's 13th Generation Raptor Lake models.
The C86-4G, designated with the OPN 3490, features 16 cores, 32 threads, and 32MB of L3 cache. If the specifications appear familiar, it is because Hygon licensed AMD's Zen IP through a joint venture several years prior. Current speculation suggests that Hygon employs the Zen core design in the C86-4G, despite the company's latest roadmap indicating that the C86-4G utilizes a "new, self-developed microarchitecture." The C86-4G operates at a clock speed of 2.8 GHz, which is lower than AMD's first-generation Zen processors.
