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China's dual 16-core Hygon CPU server rack barely outperforms a quad-core Skylake Core i7-6700HQ mobile CPU in Geekbench AI

Hygon is relying on AMD's 2017 Zen 1 architecture for its CPUs and, as a result, gets beaten handily by all modern mainstream desktop CPUs.

Sadly for the company, the dual-CPU configuration scored abysmal results in Geekbench's AI benchmark. Hygon is a fabless Chinese-based chip maker, and due to U.S. sanctions, it can't use anything beyond AMD's original Zen architecture (at least for now), which is the company's Achilles heel for competitive generational performance improvements. The only way it has been able to boost performance is by adding more cores to its CPUs and adding more CPUs to its platform, which does help boost multi-core performance but critically doesn't help in most other areas such as single-core IPC and latency-related bottlenecks, not to mention missing out on the latest CPU instruction sets such as AVX-512.

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