Testing a Chinese x86 CPU: A Deep Dive into Zen-based Hygon Dhyana Processors
by Dr. Ian Cutress & Wendell Wilson on February 27, 2020 9:00 AM ESTBenchmarks: Windows
For both systems, we installed Windows: Windows 10 Pro on the small 8-core Dhyana system, and Windows 10 Enterprise on the big dual 32-core Dhyana Plus server. With AVX/AVX2 not working properly, our range of testing was limited. As mentioned previously, some software didn’t even want to run on one system or the other, such as CPU-Z on the server.
From the numbers we can see that our 8-core Dhyana processor falls somewhere between the 6-core Ryzen 5 1600X and the 8-core Ryzen 6 1800X, due to clock speeds, but on particular tests it gets hammered by even the Athlon 200GE. The dual 32-core Dhyana Plus server seems to be in all sorts of a mess, often beaten by the Ryzen 7 1800X, or can now be easily beaten by the Ryzen 9 3950X. The one benchmark where it did really well was Corona – a memory/NUMA agnostic integer based renderer – it seems like a match made in heaven.
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scineram - Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - link
Ok, moron. Last time I checked those are independent states, not US property. But wasn't Ukraine invaded under, I don't know, Obama?Notmyusualid - Sunday, March 8, 2020 - link
+1s.yu - Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - link
I agree with the other guy. Trump was elected with promises among which reining back global military intervention was one of them, and I believe this is honestly one of his personal stances. Ukraine was a member of the USSR, one of the closest to Moscow, I would say it was quite greedy for NATO to try to turn Ukraine(do you really need to shit on their doorsteps?) and not a core interest of the US to see that through bearing the risks that come with military intervention.dijitalbroadside - Friday, February 28, 2020 - link
Feel like I'm in a bizarro world entering this comments section. You're not the only one, but you in particular have managed to demonstrate a lack of both basic reading comprehension and general knowledge of the semiconductor market in the span of just five nearly incoherent sentences. It's like you have the memory of a goldfish with a laser focus on missing the point on any topic in order to verify your worldview, truly astonishing.Lord of the Bored - Friday, February 28, 2020 - link
"#humanrights"? Does this look like Twitter to you?jospoortvliet - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link
Best response.scineram - Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - link
It's probably a CIA Pete "supporter", assigned to his next mission.wr3zzz - Thursday, February 27, 2020 - link
Really excellent journalism. It's nice to see hard (pun intended) facts addressing what people just have been speculating and spinning.Hrel - Thursday, February 27, 2020 - link
Holy shit! The Obama administration was actively supporting the theft of American intellectual property! Biggest news in this misdirect of an article.Retycint - Thursday, February 27, 2020 - link
I love how people immediately jump into conclusions about the administration, despite knowing absolutely nothing. Dunning-Kruger effect at full force here