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.
I honestly feel like our best route to competition at this point is the big players being forced to license technology to eachother and smaller companies.
The reason CPUs don’t suffer from these issues nearly as badly as graphics is that Intel and AMD are effectively stuck having to share technology with eachother.
More competition for AMD and NVIDIA, the better.
I wouldn’t expect the first domestic Chinese GPU to be great but hopefully they keep iterating and get better and better.
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.
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…
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??
I was basing that on the quote saying it rivals a 4060.
According to the article, the actual performance is on par with a GTX 660 Ti
I suppose Chinese might quickly catch on. They certainly don’t lack resources.
Can’t wait for Gamers Nexus to get their hands on this one
While it was a historic milestone as the first domestic gaming card with PCIe 5.0, it struggled with immature drivers and inconsistent performance, and it failed to run modern titles smoothly.
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 is the issue i have with new chinese brand(and also a lot of existing one), they always have great spec on paper but really fall short on real world use. From phone to car to bike part to computer hardware, they always love to hype up the spec for the sales, but fumbled on the user long term experience.
On the other hand, as long as you expecting Mushu when they sell you a dragon, it’s a good alternative from the expensive stuff, just know what you’re getting into.
Hey, OP, why did you write that this GPU is “the first (…) to rival the Nvidia RTX 4060 in raw performance”?
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
It’s nowhere near that, as tests show.
Given how much Intel struggled even though they had been working with GPUs for decades, I’m actually impressed with how fast and competent China’s attempts have been so far. Though I have to say, from the article:
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.
If none of the specs match what they’re supposed to be, and are weirdly out of date, are they sure this is the same GPU? It could very well be an early prototype being tested for stability. There are some engineering sample CPUs that run at 1/100th the intended speed of the final product, for instance.
Just goes to show the power of corporate espionage.
