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minus-squareVerdant Banana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·5 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
minus-squareToes♀@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoI’m having a hard time finding a bullet point list of all it’s features. Some articles are telling me it’s a match for Haswell others are telling me it has AVX2. None of them seem that reliable. Do you happen to know?
minus-squareAux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoIt’s a MIPS CPU. There’s no point comparing it to x86.
minus-squareToes♀@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThe article explicitly says it supports x86. So I’m trying to understand to what extent?
minus-squareAux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoAh ok. Well, I guess it’s just a slow emulation, but we won’t know for sure until someone runs some benchmarks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
I’m having a hard time finding a bullet point list of all it’s features.
Some articles are telling me it’s a match for Haswell others are telling me it has AVX2. None of them seem that reliable. Do you happen to know?
It’s a MIPS CPU. There’s no point comparing it to x86.
The article explicitly says it supports x86. So I’m trying to understand to what extent?
Ah ok. Well, I guess it’s just a slow emulation, but we won’t know for sure until someone runs some benchmarks.