[HN Gopher] Zhaoxin KaiXian x86 CPU Tested ___________________________________________________________________ Zhaoxin KaiXian x86 CPU Tested Author : luu Score : 34 points Date : 2020-12-31 02:55 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.tomshardware.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.tomshardware.com) | mandelken wrote: | (This is from April 2020 -> could use (2020) in the title) | userbinator wrote: | What's the equivalent level of performance in terms of AMD/Intel | CPUs? Sandy Bridge or thereabouts? Because for the past few | years, PCs have basically been "fast enough" for most things, | super-inefficient monstrosities like Electron excluded. In fact | my "daily driver" is probably slower than this Chinese CPU. | | Incidentally, there is an interesting and active market in | Chinese motherboards with X79/X99 chipsets, which are from that | era, along with used Xeons and such. | | Obviously those who place performance above all else will not be | buying these. | 11thEarlOfMar wrote: | Would be interested to know what design software they use for | these chips. | beervirus wrote: | Slow as molasses, power hungry, and almost certainly backdoored | by the CCP. No thank you. | eloff wrote: | There's no way to trust Chinese hardware or software thanks to | the lack of freedom in China for both individuals and | companies. But the domestic market there is huge, as is the | global market that doesn't care about security from Chinese | state hackers. | | Apple's CPU wasn't that interesting at the start either, it's | early days yet. | disown wrote: | Pretty much everyone tech component is manufactured in china... | Also "CCP" gives you away. Should be more sneaky about it | rather than being so up front. | ur-whale wrote: | >and almost certainly backdoored by the CCP. No thank you. | | Not that I disagree with you, but to be fair, there's no way to | tell any modern CPU that's in your computer hasn't been | backdoored. | | Intel CPU's most certainly do not have a glowing reputation in | that department. | drzaiusapelord wrote: | I wonder if Windows ARM will be so mature that by the time these | groups get x86 parity with Intel, it won't matter outside of | specialized high-performance applications like gaming because | we'll be migrating to ARM by then anyway. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-01-01 23:01 UTC)