Hygon C86 3250

The Hygon C86 3250 was a desktop processor with 8 cores, launched in March 2018. It is part of the C86-3G lineup, using the Zen (Dhyana) architecture with . Thanks to the core-count is effectively doubled, to 16 threads. C86 3250 has 16 MB of L3 cache and operates at 2.8 GHz by default, but can boost up to 3 GHz, depending on the workload. Hygon is building the C86 3250 on a 14 nm production process using 4,800 million transistors. The silicon die of the chip is not fabricated at Hygon, but at the foundry of GlobalFoundries. The multiplier is locked on C86 3250, which limits its overclocking capabilities.
With a TDP of 90 W, the C86 3250 consumes a good deal of power, so decent cooling is needed. Hygon's processor supports DDR4 memory with a dual-channel interface. The highest officially supported memory speed is 2666 MT/s, but with overclocking (and the right memory modules) you can go even higher. ECC memory is supported, too, which is an important capability for mission-critical systems, to avoid data corruption. For communication with other components in the machine, C86 3250 uses a PCI-Express Gen 3 connection. This processor does not have integrated graphics, you will need a separate graphics card.
Hardware virtualization is available on the C86 3250, which greatly improves virtual machine performance.