Although VIA Technologies sold its Centaur division, the company retained the x86 license and other CPU-related patents. However, that doesn't mean that it's gone for good. It would be foolish to think that VIA Technologies would resurrect the Centaur CNS for the retail market. According to Brutus, the Centaur CNS returned with a reported power draw of 65W approximately. Power consumption wasn't horrible, either. Unfortunately, the reviewer didn't have any luck with Minecraft. However, for the curious, Brutus discovered that the Centaur CNS was on par with quad-core, eight-thread Haswell chips in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. However, regarding multi-core performance, the Centaur CNS was just a hairline from the Ryzen 5 3400G, a more or less modern chip that leverages Zen+ cores.īy now, it should be clear that the Centaur CNS isn't a powerhouse and not a gaming chip. If you prefer Geekbench 5 as a reference point, the Centaur CNS performed roughly in the same alley as AMD's Bulldozer-powered FX-8150 in single-core performance.
On the other hand, multi-core performance was similar to Intel's Core i5-6600 (Skylake) from 2015. In Cinebench R23, the Centaur CNS's single-core performance was equal to AMD's Athlon II X2 250, a low-end chip that dates back to 2009 on the extinct K10 cores.
*Data obtained from Anandtech's CPU benchmark database.
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