A mysterious GPU from China has been noticed within the Geekbench on-line outcomes browser. The benchmarking app was used to run checks on a system that seems to be largely primarily based on know-how from Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Firm. It has a Zhaoxin KaiXian CPU, Zhaoxin motherboard, and a “Zhaoxin Glenfly GPU.” That final one is a brand new title.
Twitter’s Benchleaks surfaced this OpenCL consequence, which can provide some indication of GPU efficiency. We would not put to a lot weight on the present rating, nevertheless, as 579 for Geekbench OpenCL is sort of horrible. For comparability, even the lowly GTX 1650 scores round 38,000, whereas an RTX 3070 scores within the 135,000 vary.
The Chinese language PC system sounds fashionable and succesful sufficient on first impressions. Its CPU has 8C/8T and runs at roughly 2.7 GHz and is accompanied by a modest 8GB of DDR4 RAM. It has a discrete GPU known as the Glenfly Come up 1020, with 24 compute items (although that is an AMD GPU time period) and 2GB of VRAM. These figures do not match up very effectively with the poor OpenCL rating in Geekbench 5.
The Benchleaks comparability with an RTX 3070 appears fairly nonsensical, so we thought we might look via the total desk of OpenCL scores maintained by Geekbench. One has to scroll down the web page an extended method to see scores within the 579 area. The one GPUs on this space of the desk are classic AMD iGPUs just like the Radeon HD 6480G and Radeon HD 6410D from 2011. You too can discover Arm-designed cellular GPUs just like the Mali-G52 from 2018, and the Mali-T860 from 2016.
Higher Up to date Comparisons
These previous low-end iGPUs and Arm GPUs won’t be superb comparisons both, for individuals residing in 2022 and questioning in regards to the Zhaoxin Glenfly Come up 1020 GPU’s efficiency in comparison with up to date PCs. So, taking a look at one thing extra fashionable and relatable to PC fans, we see that the Zhaoxin GPU is about 20x slower than the AMD Radeon Vega 11 graphics, which have been built-in into the AMD Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 5 3400G APUs. If that is not a mainstream sufficient reference, the legendary GeForce GTX 1060 6GB was about 60 instances quicker than the Zhaoxin Glenfly Come up 1020 GPU in these checks.
Is the Zhaoxin Glenfly Come up 1020 GPU an Entry Stage Member of the Household?
In fact, the “Glenfly Come up 1020” GPU won’t be Zhaoxin’s most suitable choice. The ‘1020’ could possibly be a low-power minimal spec member of the GPU household. Final June we reported on some data and pictures which supplied some perception right into a Zhaoxin GlenFly discrete GPU at sub-75W that was noticed operating the Unigine Heaven benchmark (a 2009 DX11 take a look at). We do not know if that was the identical GPU because the one within the Geekbench OpenCL checks, but it surely gave the impression to be extra succesful.
Within the Unigine Heaven checks shared final yr, the Chinese language graphics card managed 32fps on an FHD monitor. Sadly, we do not know the benchmark high quality settings used, or if it was upscaling to 1080p or operating at native decision.
A maybe extra doubtless downside is that OpenCL testing with Geekbench will be extremely variable, notably with early drivers. Utilizing it to gauge GPU efficiency can result in very skewed outcomes, even with comparisons between GPUs utilizing the identical structure. Correctly tuned drivers would possibly enhance efficiency an order of magnitude or extra, however with out direct entry to the {hardware} and drivers, that is all we’ve got for now. We’ll withhold any last judgement till {hardware} and drivers develop into publicly accessible, and contemplate this early look extra of a proof of existence than a dependable measurement of potential efficiency.
