Russian Processor Disappointed in Gaming Test!
Russia’s Irtysh C632 processor came to the fore with gaming performance and bottleneck problems in The Witcher 3 test. Here are the details.
Irtysh processors operating in the Russian market are among the chips that are not yet well known in the international arena but were developed with the aim of technological independence.
YouTube channel PRO Hi-Tech tested the gaming performance of the 32-core Irtysh C632 processor with the Radeon RX 9600 XT graphics card on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
In the tests, the processor performed well behind its modern mainstream competitors. Irtysh C632It offered a value between 25 and 38 FPS in the game’s low graphics settings and 22 and 32 FPS in ultra settings.
Irtysh Processor Family and Technical Details
The Irtysh series was developed by Springboard Electronics by licensing the LA664 architecture from Chinese company Loongson and is viewed by many experts as a rebranded version of the Loongson 3C6000 series.
This series, consisting of C664, C632 and C616 models, stands out with features such as 64 PCIe 4.0 lines and four-channel DDR4-3200 memory support.
Loongson’s LA664 cores promise similar performance to AMD Zen 3 and Intel Ice Lake architectures on paper. The Russian company customized this architecture according to its own needs and made special additions to the Russian market, such as local security modules.
Causes of Bottleneck in Game Performance
The low FPS values in the tested system clearly reveal that the processor is creating a serious bottleneck. While the Radeon RX 9600 XT graphics card can exceed 100 FPS in The Witcher 3 game when paired with a powerful processor, this potential cannot be used with the Irtysh C632.
One of the main reasons for this situation is that the LoongArch architecture is not directly compatible with common x86 operating systems such as Windows. The processor suffers a serious performance loss because it has to work through translation layers such as Box64 and Steam Proton in a Linux-based infrastructure.
Since Russia cannot access x86-based processors of companies such as Intel and AMD due to US sanctions, it has turned to Chinese Loongson technology.
Lack of software compatibility and optimization makes it difficult for these chips to compete with mainstream processors in high-performance areas such as gaming.
Do you think Russia’s efforts to build its own technological infrastructure can reach a competitive level of gaming performance in the future?
