Arch Linux Running Well On LoongArch - Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 12 February 2026 at 11:05 AM EST. Page 1 of 4. 14 Comments.

👁 Loongson 3B6000 board

Earlier this month I posted benchmarks of the Loongson 3B6000 for this 12-core / 24-thread LoongArch Chinese CPU with DDR4 ECC memory. Those initial benchmarks were done with Debian LoongArch64 while since then I've shifted over to using Arch Linux on LoongArch.

👁 Loongson 3B6000 LoongArch CPU

With the Loongson 3B6000 supporting UEFI booting, it was a breeze switching from Debian to Arch Linux on this LoongArch test box provided by the Loongson Hobbyists Community. Via their hobbyists community's OS listing page is a look at the different Linux distributions available for Loongson hardware.

👁 Loongson 3B6000 lscpu on Arch Linux

The Arch Linux build for Loong64 booted up just fine on the Loongson-3B6000x1-7A2000x1-EVB and was off to the races.

👁 Arch Linux booting on LoongArch

While testing Arch Linux on LoongArch64 it was using the Linux 6.18 kernel, GCC 15.2.1, Btrfs as the default file-system, and other leading-edge packages. For those curious, in this article are some benchmarks of Arch Linux against Debian on this same Loongson 3B6000 12-core / 24-thread system.

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