The Chinese-made Zhaoxin KX-6000G CPU with integrated GT10C0 GPU offers the same performance as NVIDIA’s GT 630

Domestic Chinese chipmaker Zhaoxin enters the APU space with its first product, the KX-6000G CPU, which offers up to 1.5 TFLOPs of GPU horsepower.

Chinese chipmaker Zhaoxin is preparing the KX-6000G CPU with an integrated GPU capable of 1.5 TFLOPs, which is as fast as NVIDIA’s decades-old GT 630

Zhaoxin is a Chinese chipmaker that offers both CPU and GPU IPs based on its own architectures. The manufacturer’s next-generation KX-6000 CPU lineup will replace the KX-5000 and ZX-200 CPUs that were on the market from 2017-2018. The latest chips are said to feature 4 cores, 8 threads, clock speeds up to 3.0 GHz, DDR4 DRAM support, PCIe 3.0 I/O and a proprietary 16 nm architecture.

Last month we talked about how Zhaoxin’s KH-4000 series CPUs managed to deliver single-core performance close to AMD’s 1st Gen Ryzen CPU based on Zen architecture . Compared to the KX series, which is mainly aimed at the private consumer segment, the KH series is mainly aimed at the server segment and offers up to 16 cores and 16 threads. It’s also based on a 16nm processing node, although the architecture isn’t as up-to-date as that of the KX-6000G CPUs.

So, getting back to the Zhaoxin KX-6000G CPUs, which we might as well call APUs since they use the same Zhaoxin-made ZX C1080 GPU found in the Glenfly Arise GT-10C0 dGPU featured on was introduced to the Chinese domestic market just a few days ago. Now, the same discrete chip has been packed into Zhaoxin’s KX-6000G CPUs. The chip’s naming scheme and design sounds a lot like AMD’s Ryzen desktop APUs, which also use discrete GPU architecture and are “G” labeled.

According to Zhaoxin, the CPU contains 8 cores and 16 threads, which is made possible by fusing two dies on the same chassis. The standard version of the KX-6000 CPUs comes only with the integrated GPU C-960, which offers VGA, HDMI and DP support with up to 4K resolutions. The new integrated GPU not only offers more power, but also better graphics capabilities.

First of all, the integrated Zhaoxin GPU scores around 1000 points in 3DMark 11, which is over a 3x increase compared to the older GPU. It comes with a brand new graphics and image processing engine compatible with Galaxy Kirin KOS, Tongxin Software UOS, Windows and various other mainstream Chinese operating systems. The chip also offers full compatibility with the DirectX 11, Open GL 4.5 and OpenGL 1.2 APIs while outputting a native 4K display. In the 3DMark 11 (Performance) benchmark, which scores similar points, the integrated chip is a huge improvement over its predecessor, but still only on par with an NVIDIA GT 630 graphics card. (Result from Vmodtech’s GT 630 test):

The Zhaoxin KX-6000G CPU was also tested in GLMark 2, where it scored 3116 points. An NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 scored 10,516 points in the same benchmark. As for the CPU, the Zhaxoin chip scores over 15,000 MIPS on multi-threading decompression, making it faster than the AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and close to Intel’s Core i5-7500. We used the following results from TechSpot’s review to create a comparison chart:

With this in mind, Chinese GPU makers have been trying their best to achieve parity with AMD and NVIDIA GPUs since 2016. Recently, Jing Jiawei and Innosilicon announced their plans to offer the performance of the GTX 1080 and Vega class in the coming years. Zhaoxin is also working on a range of x86 processors to rival AMD’s first-gen Ryzen CPUs, while Loongson is targeting Zen 3 performance with its upcoming CPUs by 2023.