And the Russian development is far from an outsider
The CNews resource shared the results of testing the Baikal-S (BE-S1000) Russian server processor in comparison with well-known competitors.
Testing, apparently, was carried out by Baikal Electronics itself. Recall that Baikal-S is a 48-core server CPU based on Arm architecture with Cortex-A75 cores and a six-channel RAM controller, which is produced according to the 16 nm process technology.
The processor was compared with the Xeon Gold 6230 and Huawei Kunpeng 920. Both competitors are very old and were released back in 2019. The Intel CPU contains 20 Cascade Lake generation cores (Skylake microarchitecture) on a 14 nm process, and the second one offers the same 48 cores on an ARMv8 architecture and a 7 nm process.
As you can see, in the tests that the authors conducted, Baikal-S does not look like an outsider. Depending on the test, he may lag behind one of the opponents, but bypass the other. However, in terms of tests, there are not all participants' results, and there are few tests themselves. But, for example, in Geekbench 5 in multithreaded mode, the Russian CPU is more than twice as fast as the 16-core AMD Epyc 7351 (first generation Epyc).
Baikal Electronics says it is continuing to develop the Baikal-S2 processor, which will be five to six times faster than the first generation, and should also be produced according to 6 nm standards, but it is unclear whether the company will be able to produce such a CPU under active sanctions.
