Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p>Chinese <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Hygon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hygon</span></a> 16-core chip trades blows with <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AMD</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Threadripper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Threadripper</span></a> 1#950X in Geekbench — China's chipmaker continues to leverage <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AMD</span></a>'s <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Zen1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zen1</span></a> architecture<br>But Hygon is stuck with the seven-year-old architecture, for now.<br>The <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPU</span></a> is named Hygon C86-4G - alternatively dubbed C86 3490 - a step higher than the eight-core C86 3350 - belonging to the same Hygon C86-3000 family.<br>Still, modern-day CPUs such as the Ryzen 5 5600 (<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Zen3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zen3</span></a>) put it to shame with less than half the cores.<br><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinese-hygon-16-core-chip-trades-blows-with-amd-threadripper-1950x-in-geekbench-chinese-chipmaker-continues-to-leverage-amds-zen-1-architecture" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tomshardware.com/pc-components</span><span class="invisible">/cpus/chinese-hygon-16-core-chip-trades-blows-with-amd-threadripper-1950x-in-geekbench-chinese-chipmaker-continues-to-leverage-amds-zen-1-architecture</span></a></p>