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.
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
133 Comments
View All Comments
sonny73n - Friday, February 28, 2020 - link
“ Surely it has hardware based spyware. There's no way I'd use this for anything”Only idiots make false accusations without any proof in public.
Why would anyone wants to spy on a foul-mouth imbecile like you?
Lord of the Bored - Saturday, February 29, 2020 - link
Ironically, comrade sonny73n, you're the one being foul-mouthed. Not d0x360.Morawka - Friday, February 28, 2020 - link
The additional and permanent hard-wired coin-cell battery makes me suspicious that it's there for backdoor access.Someone else - Sunday, March 1, 2020 - link
There is no second battery, there is a 1.0 F supercapacitator that properly powers the SRAM of the FPGA.FunBunny2 - Sunday, March 1, 2020 - link
"a 1.0 F supercapacitator"yeah. right. https://www.amazon.com/Rockford-RFC1-1-Farad-Capac...
3.2 pounds 13 x 9.5 x 4 in
Qasar - Sunday, March 1, 2020 - link
capacitors do come in different sizes, they also have them on enterprise ssds for the same reason as Someone else has stated. the one you linked to, is for car stereos, VERY different use cases.FunBunny2 - Sunday, March 1, 2020 - link
" VERY different use cases."a Farad is still a Farad, so someone is fibbing.
29a - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link
https://www.amazon.com/1-Farad-Capacitor/dp/B00070...Boy that was hard to find.
Qasar - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link
29a, exactly.Qasar - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link
the size alone shows that.go look at ssds for the enterprise market with the power back up feature, and you will see.