Regarding the V-Ray benchmark, the C86-4G achieved a score 29% higher than the Core i7-12700 and 7% higher than the Core i7-13700. However, the Chinese chip fell behind the Core i7-14700K by a substantial 22% margin.
The post also claims that the C86-4G is capable of running Valorant and Black Myth: Wukong; however, no proof or results were presented.
It is easy to comprehend why the C86-4G lags in single-threaded performance, given the speculation that it continues to utilize AMD's Zen execution cores. Clearly, it holds an advantage in multi-threaded performance due to its 16 cores. The Core i7-12700 and Core i7-13700 may appear impressive on paper with their 12 and 16 cores, respectively; however, only eight of these are P-cores.
While Hygon's processors are viable options for processing power, Chinese domestic graphics cards present a different situation. Despite their progress over the past few years, there remains a significant gap between domestically produced Chinese graphics cards and those offered by Nvidia, AMD, or even Intel. Consequently, Thunderobot's latest RGB-inspired, liquid-cooled gaming PC continues to utilize an Nvidia GeForce RTX gaming graphics card.
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Zaranthos Probably consumes a lot more power for a lot less performance than current generation chips. I look forward to someone taking one of these apart and examining them to see if any patents were violated to make them. Reply
Gururu It would be nice if China catches up maybe they can introduce something new to processing that all can benefit from. Reply
LordVile Zaranthos said: It's not just an AMD Zen clone, it's got upgrades so it can support some more modern technology like DDR5. It’s literally a Zen clone with an updated I/O die. They’ve just spliced a new die onto older Zen parts. The hard part (the architecture of the actual CPU) is just another companies work. Reply
nookoool For a benchmark number that we most likely follow… from the weibo post "According to previously leaked scores, its Geekbench 6.2 single-core test score was 1073 , and its multi-core score was 8811 " Reply
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