It takes two Chinese Hygon C86 3185 Zen-based processors to beat an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X chip

YouTuber EJ Hardware, a fan of Chinese technology, recently presented performance tests on the Hygon C86 3185 processors, which are not available outside the Chinese market, compared to the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X to see the performance of the two different companies. Through separate business ventures. This alliance with AMD enabled Hygon to access and acquire x86 and SoC IP licenses from AMD to create and manufacture chips that are sold in their prospective markets, particularly in the Eastern Territory.

Hygon C86 technology is a combination of 14nm server and mainstream processors. This process allows chips to have anywhere from four to 32 cores based on stress. Due to Hygon integration and AMD technology advancements, C86 processors are identical to AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors. That the chips can be plugged into AM4 and SP3 sockets due to their design, even with some soldering to the motherboard in the process.

With the launch of the Hygon C86 3185 in 2020, it introduced a total of eight first-generation strain-dependent cores using synchronous ovulation proliferation (SMT). The Hygon CPU's core clock is 2GHz and can be amplified up to 3.4GHz. L2 cache, but also 16MB of L3 cache. In fact, the design of the chip is about the same in every aspect of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X. It also has many design similarities with the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X, which was used In the examples in the EJ Hardware video. Both processors share 95W TDP levels, but surprisingly, the Hygon C86 3185 has 70W of power consumption, which is why the Ryzen 7 1700X will actually be more efficient.

Tom's Hardware expects the YouTuber to use Hygon processors on the W550-H30 workstation. The workstation introduced two separate models, the C86 3185, adding up to sixteen first-generation strain-based cores. The Ryzen 5 5600X uses first-generation six-core Zen 3 cores. With a 7nm microarchitecture, a 3.7GHz core clock and a boost up to 4.6GHz, it also carries twice the L3 cache as the Hygon C86 3185 but produces a TDP of a lower 30W Hygon chip.

Since EJ Hardware appears to be using a server-style motherboard to test, the memory frequency is only capable of using DDR4-1866. Using this particular memory does a little above average in the process. Tom's Hardware also notes that because the chipsets are soldered to the motherboard being used , you couldn't put it on a more convenient motherboard, like the B450 family.

Its benchmark results showed that the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X produced 97% and 135% higher performance in single-core tests than Hygon chips in two Cinebench R2 and R23 tests. The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X scored 12% and 13%, respectively. The PCMark 10 test had the least surprising result, showing that AMD's Ryzen 5 chip beat two Hygon chips by a whopping 59% margin.

In gaming tests, EJ Hardware tests showed good performance, as long as they were used in a dual configuration. In combination with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, the processors produced 1080p frame rates using 4K resolution. The only game Hygon chips did not produce well was Cyberpunk 2077.

Essentially, EJ hardware proves that the Zen 3-based Ryzen 5 5600X is highly efficient with smaller cores and wires and a lower TDP. The Ryzen 7 1700X processors are said to be the only real way to outperform the Ryzen 5 5600X while performing heavy workloads. A work consisting of several ovaries. However, single wire results from its tests prove that the first generation of Zen outperforms Zen 3. Regardless of performance, China is focusing more on independent technology than on high-performance processors.