Hygon CPUs Trail Behind 10-Year-Old Intel in Geekbench AI
A dual-CPU Hygon server rack based on AMD's old Zen 1 architecture barely outperforms a quad-core Skylake Core i7-6700HQ in Geekbench AI.
A server rack featuring two Hygon CPUs has produced disappointing results in Geekbench's new AI benchmark, barely outperforming a nearly 10-year-old quad-core Intel Core i7-6700HQ mobile CPU. The Hygon CPUs, identified with a CPUID of 900F22, achieved a single-precision score of 1,412, a half-precision score of 531, and a quantized score of 1,523. These processors, operating at a base frequency of 3GHz and paired with 64GB of memory, were outperformed by even older mobile hardware. Geekbench AI Benchmark Results CPU Single Precision Score Half Precision Score Quantized Score Dual Hygon 16-core CPUs 1,412 531 1,523 Core i7-6700HQ 1,113 589 1,394 Ryzen 5 7600X 3,542 1,686 6,281 Performance Deficit Compared to the mid-range AMD Ryzen 5 7600X desktop CPU, the Hygon-based server rack was vastly outperformed, demonstrating a 2.5x to 4x performance improvement despite having a fraction of the core count. This performance gap is attributed to Hygon's reliance on AMD's 2017 Zen 1 architecture. Hygon is…