Lenovo has taken the plunge and is releasing a premium X1 notebook in China with a domestic Zhaoxin KX-6000G processor and a 2.8K OLED display. As usual with the X1, the whole computer brings quality processing, but the processor is a big surprise.
Introduced two years ago, the Zhaoxin KX-6000G is a purely Chinese product that is an effort to create a competitive laptop SoC against AMD and Intel. Since Zhaoxin has been working practically since the peak, their processors are still outdated compared to current trends – specifically, the KX-6000G uses 16 nm technology with four cores, 4 MB cache and a frequency of up to 3.3 GHz. It supports DDR4-3200 RAM memory, 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes and USB 3.2 Gen1 maximum. It achieves performance comparable to the Core i5 5015U.
But it’s still enough power for the basic tasks the X1 is designed for. Lenovo around it he built a relatively decent piece, with a thickness of 13.9 millimeters and a weight of only 990 grams. As we already mentioned, the display has an OLED panel with a resolution of 2.8 K. It has a backlit keyboard, a camera and, in short, everything you expect from a laptop.
But Zhaoxin is progressing rather quickly. This year, it unveiled the new generation KX-7000, which offers double the performance of the KX-6000, although it still lags behind the processors that were introduced on the Zen 2 or Skylake architecture.
Source: pctuning.cz
