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

Published: (February 3, 2026 at 12:12 PM EST)
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Source: Tom’s Hardware

One of Loongson’s 12-core CPUs has been benchmarked by Phoronix. The Linux outlet discovered the chip is three times slower on average than AMD’s latest six-core CPU the Ryzen 5 9600X.

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