Chinese chip maker Zhaoxin has entered the APU field with its first product, the KX-6000G processor, delivering up to 1.5 TFLOPs of GPU power.
Chinese chipmaker Zhaoxin gears up for the decade-old NVIDIA KX-6000G CPU with 1.5 TFLOP integrated GPU and GT 630 from NVIDIA
To make things clear, Zhaoxin is a Chinese chipset maker that offers both CPU and GPU IPs based on its own architectures. The manufacturer’s next-generation KX-6000 processor line will replace the KX-5000 and ZX-200 processors that have been on the market since 2017-2018. The latest chipset is expected to have 4 cores, 8 threads, speeds up to 3.0GHz, support for DDR4 DRAM, PCIe 3.0 I/O, and an internal 16nm architecture.
Last month, we talked about how the Zhaoxin KH-4000 series processors were able to deliver single-core performance close to AMD’s first-generation Ryzen processors based on the Zen architecture. Compared with the KX series which mainly caters to the home consumer segment, the KH series mainly caters to the server sector and provides up to 16 cores and 16 threads. It is also based on a 16nm process node although the architecture is not as modernized as the KX-6000G processors.
So, going back to the Zhaoxin KX-6000G CPUs which we may also call APUs because they use the same Zhaoxin Zhaoxin C1080 GPU found in the Glenfly Arise-GT-10C0 graphics card which was launched in the Chinese domestic market just a few days ago. . Now, the same discrete chip has been integrated into the Zhaoxin KX-6000G processors. The naming scheme and chip design are very similar to AMD’s Ryzen Desktop APUs which also use a separate GPU architecture and have a “G” attached.
According to Zhaoxin, the CPU has 8 cores and 16 threads, which is made possible by merging two templates into the same package. The standard version of the KX-6000 processors only comes with a built-in C-960 GPU that provides support for VGA, HDMI, and DP at resolutions up to 4K. The new integrated GPU not only provides increased performance, but also better graphics capabilities.
For starters, in 3DMark 11, the Zhaoxin integrated GPU scores around 1,000 points, which is 3 times more than the older GPU. It comes with an all-new graphics and image processing engine that is compatible with Galaxy Kirin KOS, Tongxin Software UOS, Windows, and many other traditional Chinese operating systems. The chip also provides full compliance with DirectX 11, Open GL 4.5 and OpenGL 1.2 APIs while producing a native 4K display. Despite a massive improvement over its predecessor, the integrated chip is still on par with the NVIDIA GT 630 graphics card in the 3DMark 11 (Performance) benchmark that scores similarly. (Vmodtech GT 630 review rating):
The Zhaoxin KX-6000G processor was also tested in GLMark 2 where it scored 3116 points, and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 scored 10516 points in the same benchmark. For the CPU, the Zhaxoin chip registers over 15,000 MIPS in multi-threaded decompression, making it faster than the AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and close to the Intel Core i5-7500. We used the following scores from a TechSpot review to make a comparison table:
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However, Chinese GPU makers have been doing their best to achieve parity with AMD and NVIDIA GPUs since 2016. Recently, Jing Jiaoui and Inosilicon teased their plans to deliver GTX 1080 and Vega class performance in the coming years. Zhaoxin is also working on a line of x86 processors that can rival AMD’s first-generation Ryzen processors, while Loongson is targeting Zen 3 performance with its next processors by 2023.
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