@schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 days agoMotherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and coolerwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1120arrow-down118file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareToes♀linkfedilinkEnglish1•7 days agoI’m having a hard time finding a bullet point list of all it’s features. Some articles are telling me it’s a match for Haswell others are telling me it has AVX2. None of them seem that reliable. Do you happen to know?
minus-square@Aux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•6 days agoIt’s a MIPS CPU. There’s no point comparing it to x86.
minus-squareToes♀linkfedilinkEnglish1•6 days agoThe article explicitly says it supports x86. So I’m trying to understand to what extent?
minus-square@Aux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•5 days agoAh ok. Well, I guess it’s just a slow emulation, but we won’t know for sure until someone runs some benchmarks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
I’m having a hard time finding a bullet point list of all it’s features.
Some articles are telling me it’s a match for Haswell others are telling me it has AVX2. None of them seem that reliable. Do you happen to know?
It’s a MIPS CPU. There’s no point comparing it to x86.
The article explicitly says it supports x86. So I’m trying to understand to what extent?
Ah ok. Well, I guess it’s just a slow emulation, but we won’t know for sure until someone runs some benchmarks.