Russia’s self-developed 8-core CPU performance measurement: can play old games decades ago, and the next generation of “high-performance” chips is unmanned

How about the performance of Russia’s self-developed chips? The latest evaluation:

CPU processors with self-developed architecture can run old games decades ago.

This test was conducted by the blogger Elbrus PC Play. The tested processor is Elbrus-8SV, which uses a very long instruction set architecture, namely VLIW architecture.

Elbrus is well-known among the self-developed processors in Russia. The official specification of Elbrus-8SV is 8-core 1.5GHz, 16MB L3 cache, and supports four-channel DDR4-2400ECC memory.

Elbrus-8SV has a single-precision computing power of 576GFLOPs and double-precision computing power of 288GFLOPs, which is equivalent to the XEON W-2150B released by Intel five years ago (2018), with a computing power of 580GFLOPs.

Compared with the previous generation processor Elbrus-8S, which also has 8 cores, the performance of Elbrus-8SV has been improved by about two times.

Specifically, in various game scenarios, how effective is Elbrus-8SV and how does it play?

It can actually be played, and the frame rate is up to 200FPS
As usual, let’s take a look at my test platform first, which is equipped with 32GB DDR4 ECC memory and AMD RX 580 graphics card, and then runs on the Elbrus OS 7.1 operating system developed in Russia based on Linux 5.4.

Several games tested this time are also “old friends”, including “Stalker: Call of Pripyat”, “Stalker: Clear Sky”, “The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind” and “CS: GO “wait.

Not much to say next, just look at the evaluation results.

The Elbrus-8SV worked well on The Dark Mod for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind and Doom 3.

The maximum frame rate on Elder Scrolls 3 is 200+FPS, but overall, the screen frame rate will oscillate between 30FPS and 200FPS depending on the complexity of the scene.

As for The Dark Mod, it works fairly well with basic settings, and provides a frame rate between 30FPS and 60FPS. Looking at this kind of operation, it is relatively smooth.

In the two stalker games tested by Elbrus-8SV, it can’t be said that it’s just so so, it can only be said that it’s almost impossible to play, and the frame rate is hard to exceed 30FPS when running in low quality.

In addition to these games, I also tested some less popular games, the results are as above, there are good and bad.

However, for a processor with outdated design and technology, it is not bad to be able to barely play games.

Better and faster processors have been made
While the performance of the Elbrus-8SV is so-so, its company, MCST, has revealed that it has now developed an even better chip: the Elbrus-16C.

This processor uses a 16nm process, has 16 CPU cores and a faster clock frequency of 2GHz, and also supports 8-channel memory and 32 PCIe 3.0 channels.

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And Elbrus-8SV claims that the single-precision computing power has increased to 1500GFLOPs, and the double-precision has 750GFLOPs. Compared with the performance of Elbrus-8SV, it has increased by 1.6 times.

However, it is worth mentioning that under the current situation, it is almost difficult for Russian chips to find factories for mass production.