This specific GPU is… Kind of a mixed bag. It’s supposed to be built on a 6nm process, and the G100 is, according to Lisuan, the first domestic chip to genuinely rival the NVIDIA RTX 4060 in raw performance, delivering 24 TFLOPS of FP32 compute. It even introduced support for Windows on ARM, a feature even major Western competitors had not fully prioritized.

It appears to fall short of its marketing promises, though. An alleged Geekbench OpenCL listing revealed the G100 achieving a score of only 15,524, a performance tier that effectively ties it with the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, a card released in 2012. This places the “next-gen” Chinese GPU on par with 13-year-old hardware, making it one of the lowest-scoring entries in the modern database. The leaked specifications further muddied the waters, showing the device operating with only 32 Compute Units, a bafflingly low 300 MHz clock speed, and a virtually unusable 256 MB of video memory. We’ll likely see more benchmarks as the GPU makes its way to the hands of customers.

These “anemic” figures might represent an engineering sample failing to report correctly due to immature drivers—a theory supported by the test bed’s configuration of a Ryzen 7 8700G on Windows 10. But still, if true, the underlying silicon may still be fundamentally incapable of reaching the promised RTX 4060 performance targets, regardless of the actual specifications that are being reported.

  • orclev@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    15 days ago

    Sounds like it’s about equivalent to Intel’s latest GPU. Both are running about a little over a generation behind AMD and Nvidia. Meanwhile Nvidia is busy trying to kill their consumer GPU division to free up more fab space for data center GPUs chasing that AI bubble. AMD meanwhile has indicated they’re not bothering to even try to compete with Nvidia on the high end but rather are trying to land solidly in the middle of Nvidia’s lineup. More competition is good but it seems like the two big players currently are busy trying to not compete as best they can, with everyone else fighting for their scraps. The next year or two in the PC market are shaping up to be a real shit show.

    • Bobby Turkalino@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      15 days ago

      Nvidia is busy trying to kill their consumer GPU division to free up more fab space for data center GPUs chasing that AI bubble

      Which seems wildly shortsighted, like surely the AI space is going to find some kind of more specialized hardware soon, sort of like how crypto moved to ASICs. But I guess bubbles are shortsighted…

    • glimse@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      15 days ago

      Sounds like it’s about equivalent to Intel’s latest GPU. Both are running about a little over a generation behind AMD and Nvidia.

      Sounds like it’s more than “a little over one generation behind” if it benchmarks near an Nvidia card released 14 years ago??