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Phytium presents D2000 ARM-based octa-core desktop CPU for the Chinese market
The new Phytium D2000 processors use the same custom 64-bit ARMv8-compatible FTC663 cores integrated in last year's FeiTeng-2000/4 model, except now there are 4x 2-core clusters instead of 2. Each of these clusters shares a unified 2 MB L2 cache and 1 MB L3 cache (8 MB of L2 cache and 4 MB L3 cache in total). This architecture features a four-issue out-of-order pipeline combined with Phytium's latest dynamic branch predictor and INT / FP units supporting ARM's ASIMD instructions. There is also support for SM2 / SM3 / SM4 / SM9 cryptography algorithms and the proprietary PSPA 1.0 security platform.
As far as hardware specs go, the D2000 is not really a match for the latest Intel and AMD chips, as it is built on China's own 14 nm nodes. Still, it features all the standard features you would expect from an entry-level CPU, including 128-bit DDR4-3200 / LPDDR4 RAM support, 34 PCIe 3.0 lanes that can be split into four PCIe 3.0 x8 slots and two PCIe 3.0 x1 slots, plus 2x GbE NiCs, 32 GPIO lanes, and an integrated audio codec. There is no iGPU, however. Core clock speeds will be set between 2.3 - 2.6 GHz, with a 25 W TDP, and the processor scores 97.45 points in the SPECint test.
Phytium is currently rolling out the D2000 chips to Chinese PC OEMs, and the first systems featuring the new processors are expected to hit the market in late Q1 2021.
Many more details at Tom's Hardware.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @10:58PM (5 children)
So Win10 or some Panda-linux?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday January 09 2021, @11:18PM (4 children)
It could be something like Ubuntu Kylin [wikipedia.org]. Here is a story [tomshardware.com] about the previous quad-core FeiTeng-2000/4.
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(Score: 2) by sgleysti on Saturday January 09 2021, @11:48PM (3 children)
You seem to follow this. Does phytium support ECC ram?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Sunday January 10 2021, @12:02AM (2 children)
Based on this post [cnx-software.com] about the Phytium FT-2000/4, the answer is probably yes. But don't go running to Alibaba until you get the facts straight.
They also make server chips, like this 64-core FT-2000+/64 [wikichip.org] that supports ECC.
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday January 10 2021, @01:35PM (1 child)
This is one of the interesting aspects, that even if this is mainly for the chinese market -- or chinese associated market as I doubt they'll want to go head-2-head with Intel/AMD/Arm in the western markets at the moment. Buying one from Alibaba is an actual option and if turns out this is great in some aspect it becomes an actual option. If it's just cheap enough, interesting enough and you can do fun things with it then it's going to be a totally viable option for the western enthusiasts.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday January 10 2021, @07:39PM
There are no bad products, only bad prices.
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