I think I had a Cyrix 233 at one point in the 90s. Can’t believe we’ve got calculators that are faster than that now!
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9point6@lemmy.world 5 months ago
First I’ve heard of these so I looked into it
It’s basically a continuation of VIA’s x86 tech (they sold the cyrix processors for a while if anyone remembers them). I assumed it was just copyright theft, but these are legitimately licensed x86 chips.
Apparently the current generation of these is like the Ryzen 3000 series, but I can’t find any actual benchmarks, so I’ll take that with a bit of salt. I doubt they will have the same power efficiency as the OP ones since the clock is apparently at 3.7GHz.
This is much cooler than I initially realised though. I viable 3rd player can keep prices down
Fudoshin@feddit.uk 5 months ago
umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
the current generation of these is like the Ryzen 3000 series
They are not like Ryzens, they are actual Ryzens made in collaboration with AMD. They have a few differences but its pretty much the same chip, same performance.
9point6@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I thought the Chinese AMD chips were called Hygon or something like that?
In fact a quick google suggests these are two different CPU lines, but I might be getting it wrong
umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Its been a long time since I read about it, I’m the one probably getting this wrong.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
The cyrix line of cpu was always far behind intel and amd. They ran super hot too. One time we wanted to see how much we could overclock one and it burned itself through the motherboard!
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Offtopic, but I’ve seen an arcade monitor where a component (resistor, most likely) had burned a hole through the PCB and was gone… and the monitor was still operational!
umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
This is somewhat common. I had that happen with a VRM power transistor on a graphics card. Wasn’t very operational after it happened though.