In February of this year, the Chinese company Loongson introduced a new 3C6000 processor for the server segment. This is a monolithic chip with 16 cores on the LA664 architecture based on the MIPS command system. The processor supports SMT multithreading. The processor received four DDR4-3200 memory interfaces and 64 PCIe Gen4 channels. There is no data on operating frequencies, but they are probably very low. The younger Loongson 3A6000 processor operates at 2.5 GHz.
There were loud statements about serious progress in productivity growth against the background of older generations of Loongson, and that the new processor in IPC would allegedly catch up with AMD Zen 3 processors. Now more specific statements have appeared. At the Global Digital Economic Conference 2024 in Lhasa, Loongson representatives said that according to their testing, the 3C6000 processor was at the level of Intel Xeon Silver 4314. But of course, they did not show any graphs or specific data. Note that Xeon Silver 4314 belongs to the family of 10-nm Intel Ice Lake processors, has 16 cores (32 threads) and operates at Boost frequencies of up to 3.4 GHz.
This is a good achievement for the Chinese manufacturer. But it is worth noting that Intel Xeon Silver 4314 was released in 2021, and Loongson 3C6000 deliveries will begin in the fourth quarter of this year. At the same time, the manufacturer promises to increase production and increase supply volumes as early as 2025. Therefore, Loongson is lagging behind by about four years and three generations.
It is also known that within the framework of the new generation of processors, the Chinese manufacturer plans to introduce Loongson 3D6000 with 32 cores and 64 threads and Loongson 3E6000 with 64 cores and 128 threads.
Source:
Tom’s Hardware
