China’s first gaming GPU, the Lisuan G100, performs like a 13-year-old Nvidia GTX 660 Ti
China’s first gaming GPU, the Lisuan G100, performs like a 13-year-old Nvidia GTX 660 Ti
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But does it use less power?
It’s not China’s first gaming GPU. Moore Threads takes that claim to fame.
This article isn’t great though. It’s ostensibly written as an objective review, yet its language is clearly deriding the G100’s performance. But the point isn’t that the G100 performs poorly compared to modern cards — it’s that it exists *at all*. Every time that western companies laugh at China for being behind in something, China turns it around in less than two decades and becomes an industry leader. So the G100 might be anemic *now*, but we should check in again in a few years and see how the market has changed.
At least it should run League of Legends, so it’s good enough for China.
If it’s cheap and efficient enough it still will have a place
it will be a matter of years.
Honestly, if they can actually bring down GPU prices—even if it means disrupting the market—it’d still be a good thing.
If I went back and looked there is a good chance I’d find people laughing at early Chinese phones, that now match or outperform Samsung and Apple’s phones in many respects.
I have no doubt that China will be making powerful GPUs sooner or later.
It seems to only run at 300MHz and uses a 6nm node. Just as with the 256MB of vram it’s probably just a software error, but if they use an engineering sample that is truly under clocked to 300MHz for whatever reason I’m sure it could run at 1.5 GHz in a more final product.
People laughed at BYD too, but look how it’s now. Of course, they’re different priorities so it might take a little longer
“Chinas first gaming GPU”
Does the editor miss that almost every hardware company designs & produces gpus for years in China and Taiwan?
Gotta start somewhere
Hey it still drastically outperforms the all-American GPU.
Give it 10 years, it’ll be better and cheaper than anything you can buy in the US but it’ll also be banned from our markets.
good I hope they are in it for the long game because one thing we know is china got all the engineers and if they’re serious they will catch up very fast
maybe they won’t be able to beat the nvidia’s rtx xx80/xx90 lines but that’s fine. that is the high end, if they can match performance to the xx70 and below but way better price. that is a win for everyone
Don’t worry, with enough money and children thrown at it they will catch up.
Laugh now.
China will remember.
I will never ever count China out in technology.
The Lisuan G950X or whatever they call their future graphics cards in 10~ years will be competing with the best of AMD and NVIDIA. I have no doubt in my mind.
It’s progress, especially for such an underdog company. This isn’t like Intel getting into the GPU game, this is completely fresh. And it’s very impressive for a first iteration that it even exists.
Hopefully with a few more iterations they’ll have caught up to the big dogs, same as how BYD caught up to Volkswagen/Tesla.
I thought they had another one allready, and that was performing like 1050
This is good news
We can probably look forward to Chinese GPUs with similar performance to mid range AMD and Nvidia cards but at a fraction of the cost in 3-5 year’s time
My 7800xt will tide me over for the next 3-4 years
My next GPU could very well be a Chinese one
Nice, good for them. Hopefully they can catch up quick to the current age.
People laughed at the Chinese car industry 20 years ago.
People laughed at the Chinese EV industry 10 years ago.
Can’t wait to get RTX 6090 performance GPU for 200$ straight from Temu, and im not even joking.
They’ll be laughing at Nvidia in 5-10 years when they surpass them, somehow they develop really quickly
China’s first ever 6nm GPU, not the first GPU.
Solid start.
Hopefully that means they’ll leave Taiwan alone.
They don’t need to perform like a 5090. If they can manage to perform like GPUs from 4 years ago then nvidia will start to sweat