Anxious to break out of its dependence on the American giants, China is making rapid progress in the CPU and GPUs.
There is no doubt that China’s semiconductor industry is gradually gaining momentum. However, the latest products from the Zhaoxin company suggest that there is still a long way to go…
16 nm etching process
So far when we were talking about Zhaoxin on Clubicit was to evoke the CPUs of the Chinese group and, in particular, the KaiXian KX-U6580 that we found for example within the NAS TVS-675 from QNAP.
Things are a bit different today in that there is no question of CPUs or even GPUs for that matter. Indeed, Zhaoxin’s KX-6000G is what is known in the industry as an APU whose release should make it possible to put away the aging KX-5000s that have been available for more than five years now.
According to the information relayed by WCCFTechthe beefiest model in the KX-6000G line would feature 4 cores/8 threads with a frequency of 3 GHz. It would be a question of supporting DDR4 and PCI Express 3.0 while 16 nm is mentioned for the finesse of engraving.
GT 630 level GPU performance
However, things are still unclear as several sources report the integration of this chip into the Glenfly Arise-GT-10C0 graphics card and then mention 8 cores / 16 threads for a power of 1.5 TFLOPs: would Zhaoxin have associated two die on the same package?
This power of 1.5 TFLOPs marks a 318% increase over the previous generation of Zhaoxin GPUs. This increase is reflected in the 3DMark 11 results published by our colleagues: the test conditions remain unclear, but the Zhaoxin KX-6000G scores around 1,000 points.
A score that must be brought back to the power of AMD and NVIDIA graphics solutions to make it more meaningful: we actually fall to the performance level of a GT 630, a Kepler architecture card that was marketed ten years ago. years of that.
Another graphics benchmark was also used, GLMark 2. There, the Zhaoxin KX-6000G obtained 3,116 points compared to the 10,516 of an NVIDIA GTX 1650 GPU for example. Still, the progress of the Chinese APU is indisputable, especially since the CPU part is not too bad.
On the 7-Zip decompression test presented by WCCFTechwe note that the KX-6000G is on a par with a Core i5-7500 signed Intel and is ahead of the Ryzen 3 1300X, processors released in 2017.
Source : WCCFTech
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