China-made Loongson 12-core chip is approximately three times slower than six-core Ryzen 5 9600X — 3B6000 hampered by low clock speeds in Linux benchmarks

The Loongson 3B6000, a 12-core chip from China, was found to be significantly slower than Western six-core chips like the Ryzen 5 9600X in Linux benchmarks due to its low clock speeds. Despite its high core count, the 3B6000 performed three times worse than the Ryzen 5 9600X and only surpassed a quad-core ARM CPU in the Raspberry Pi 500. While it showed comparable performance in some specific applications like C-Ray 2.0 and OpenSSL 3.6, in most benchmarks, it lagged behind AMD and Intel's x86 chips. The chip's slow 2.5GHz clock speed limits its performance potential, but Loongson is working on newer architectures with improved clock speeds aiming to rival Intel and AMD performance levels.