Loongson introduces the next-generation 3B6600 processors, which should compete with Intel’s 12th and 13th generation chips. It also plans to develop its own GPUs with RTX 2080-like performance.
Chinese chipmaker Loongson announced plans at the conference to compete with modern processors from Intel and AMD. Its new processor series 3B6600 should be comparable in performance to processors Intel 12th and 13th generation middle and upper class. This progress is said to be the result of more than twenty years of development, which has allowed Loongson to approach the performance of the competition.
The 3B6600 processor will be part of a wider portfolio focused not only on PCs, but also servers. In addition, the company will launch its first discrete graphics cards. The 9A1000 GPU will offer performance comparable to the Radeon RX 550 and will be launched in the first half of 2025. The even more powerful 9A2000 model should compete with the RTX 2080 graphics cards.
Loongson also works on advanced SoC and MCU chips, where he strives for energy efficiency and performance. An example is the new 2K3000 chips, which promise high performance with low power consumption. These chips have a clock frequency above 2.0 GHz and consume less than 15 W.
Loongson’s great success is its independence from foreign licenses, thanks to its own LoongArch instruction set architecture. The company is now focused on developing a software ecosystem to support wider compatibility and native applications for their platform in the coming years. Of course, someone would say that this is no success and that not even a dog barks slowly after the 12th generation of Intel or the RTX 2080, and of course you are right. On the other hand, we have already reported on this Chinese manufacturer several times and the speed at which it is improving is really high.
Source: pctuning.cz
