8C/8T Huawei Kunpeng 920-powered ARM PC offers a disappointing performance for its US$1,000 price tag

[Redaktion]

Initial benchmarks of the Huawei Kunpeng 920 ARM processor in a desktop PC do not seem to paint a rosy picture. This particular PC was powered by an 8C/8T Kunpeng 920 soldered onto a Huawei motherboard and running custom Chinese Linux distro called UOS. The Kunpeng 920 was originally designed with server applications in mind, and it looks to be an indication of China's ongoing efforts to reduce reliance on major CPU players such as Intel and AMD.

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[R Valencia]

Blender v2.83, Cycle render test for same BMW27.blend file (2 cars):
- CPU: Intel Core i7 9900K (not OC): 67.3 seconds
- GPU (OptiX): NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti (MSI Gaming X TRIO): 8.39 seconds
- GPU (CUDA): NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti (MSI Gaming X TRIO): 14.69 seconds

[S.Yu]

lmao! They say they have backup. Their backup is ARM. ARM is Japanese-owned and will comply with US sanctions.
Hell even SMIC will have to comply with US sanctions because the vast majority of its suppliers are still from beyond mainland China.
That said, Huawei's survival matters hugely for the Communist regime(they put themselves on the spot with their nationalist tough talk and brainwash) and it's definitely a good time to be negotiating for more equal trade terms with the world's 2nd largest economy (1st, by GDP PPP) still unabashedly utilizing trade barriers meant for 3rd world countries, and other legally questionable maneuvers often possible only because the Party has all-encompassing control over most aspects of the economy.

[joe]

ARM may well not comply with sanctions. Japan wants trade

[S.Yu]

ARM may well not comply with sanctions. Japan wants trade

ARM is not in a position not to.

[N1TR0GLYC3RIN3]

bmw27.blend took me about 12 minutes for a i5-8250U perhaps due to power limits & throttling

That desktop 9900K has a power limit that's few times higher than the 8250U so understandably it took much shorter amount of time

RTX cores accelerate BVH traversal in hardware so no wonder RTX GPUs give another magnitude of speedup