Since Western companies implemented sanctions against Russia after the conflict broke out in Ukraine, the country has had to rely on domestically produced chips, but how do they fare against the latest generation Intel and AMD? Here you are test of the Elbrus-8SV.
For the uninitiated, Elbrus-8SV is one CPU manufactured by the Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST) as of late 2018 and is the latest model of which we have full benchmarks accessible online. Manufactured on TSMC’s 28-nanometer known, it comes with eight cores operating at 1.5 GHz, 16 MB of shared L3 cache, and supports up to four channels of DDR4-2400 RAM memory.
Already from these figures it is understood that it’s not an impressive processor, and this is confirmed by the latest tests carried out by the YouTube channel Elbrus PC Play. In an almost two-hour live stream he tested classic titles like STALKER: Call of Pripyat and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, real hits in Russia, accompanying the processor with 32 GB of DDR4 memory and an old Radeon RX 580, the all about the Russian operating system Elbrus OS 7.1.
The result is rather disappointing: in the case of Bethesda’s RPG from 2022 we are talking about minimums at 30 FPS and maximums at 200 FPS depending on the complexity of the scenes, while the GSC Game World shooter forced the computer to stay below 30 FPS at medium settingswith frequent drops to 10-20 FPS.
In short, the results speak for themselves: in Russia today there does not seem to be a good gaming processor. It is true that MCST has already registered in 2021 the 16nm Elbrus-16C processor with 16 cores operating at 2GHz, which is expected to lead to a 160% improvement. Another model being worked on should be theElbrus-32S, 32-core model of up to 2500 MHz. However, Taiwan (ergo TSMC) has already banned the export of processors operating at 25 MHz or higher to Russia for months. How is it going to produce these processors, then? We’ll see. For now, it is clear that the sanctions are hitting and will hit the country hard.
The US sanctions against China, on the other hand, have led to the creation of the first, disappointing gaming GPU completely Made in China.
