Chinese chipmaker Loongson has long promised that its next-generation 3A6000-series processors based on the LoongArch microarchitecture will match AMD's Zen 3 CPUs in terms of instructions per clock (IPC) performance. This week the company disclosed (via @9550pro) some of the actual test results of its quad-core 3A6000 processor and said that they were comparable to Intel's quad-core '10th-Gen Core' processor from 2020. But there's a catch.
"Based on the relevant test results, the overall performance of the Loongson 3A6000 processor is comparable to that of Intel's 10th generation Core quad-core processor launched in 2020," a statement by Loongson reads.
