There are not many domestic processors in Russia. Elbrus and Baikal are probably his two most popular processors in the country. They may not be the best CPUs, but their importance is growing now that major chip makers AMD and Intel have stopped selling processors to the country.Also, a series by his Russian YouTuber The game is clearly capable of gaming too, as you can see from his benchmarks. Russia’s own domestic operating system was also used for testing.
Part of TSMC’s 28nm process node, Elbrus-8SV, has eight cores at 1.5 GHz.Moscow SPARC Technology Center (MCST) has developed the Elbrus-8SV as a successor to the original Elbrus-8S with 8 cores at 1.3 GHz. As a result, the Elbrus-8SV has twice the performance of his Elbrus-8S. The Elbrus-8SV offers 576 GFLOPs in single precision and 288 GFLOPs in double precision. Additionally, the octa-core processor rocks 16MB of L3 cache shared between each core, contributing 2MB per core.
By default, the Elbrus-8SV supports up to 4 channels of DDR4-2400 ECC memory with a memory throughput of 68.3 GBps. This is a significant upgrade to his Elbrus-8S with DDR3-1600 memory. The features of the Elbrus-8SV may not be impressive, but the Russian market does not have many options.
YouTube channel Elbrus PC play (opens in new tab) Try the Elbrus-8SV on its paces with some childhood classic titles. STALKER: Call of Pripyat When Elder Scrolls III: MorrowindOur reviewers paired an Elbrus-8SV processor with 32GB of DDR4 ECC memory and an aging Radeon RX 580. The test system was on his Elbrus OS 7.1 operating system in Russia based on Linux 5.4.
Elbrus-8SV ran dark mod pretty well, Achieve frame rates of 30 FPS to 60 FPS on low settings.there was nothing wrong with the chips The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Also. However, depending on scene complexity, the frame rate will vary between 30 FPS and 200 FPS.
STALKER: Call of Pripyat Elbrus-8SV struggled. At medium settings, the frame rate barely exceeded 30 FPS. They ranged from 10 to 20 FPS and occasionally froze during testing.Chip didn’t have much luck stalker: fine weatherReviewers observed similar performance and scenes when the Elbrus-8SV was at 10 FPS flat. Elbrus PC Play also tested some less popular titles, with mixed performance.
The results speak for themselves. The Elbrus-8SV is far from a gaming powerhouse. Some of the titles we tested were over ten years old. Then there are compatibility issues. Unfortunately, the Russian chip isn’t on the compatibility list for many modern titles, relegating it to running older games and consoles with his emulators.
MCST has already taped out their new Elbrus-16C, a 16 nm chip with 16 cores running at 2 GHz. It also supports 8 channel memory and offers up to 32 PCIe 3.0 lanes. Additionally, the 16-core chip brings single and double precision numbers up to 1,500 GFLOPs and 750 GFLOPs respectively. This is a 160% improvement over the Elbrus-8SV. It will be fascinating to see how high the Elbrus-16C brings gaming performance to the table. The only question is who will make the chips for Russia, since Taiwan has banned the export of his processors running above 25 MHz.
