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.
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.
Forgot Intel? lol
Didn’t they drop their arc cards?
Not yet.
I thought they were dropping it completely when they changed to just have it as part of the cpu instead a discrete card
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.
More competition fuck yeah. We should all be excited.
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.
You mean my $0.99 flashlight from Aliexpress doesn’t really have 100000 lumens? 😱
I’m just mad my vacuum cleaner doesn’t have 1200kpa suction power 😔
It appears to fall short of its marketing promises, though
Figures.
Good, more competition, better prices, fuck nvidia. My thoughts in a bag
Can’t wait for Gamers Nexus to get their hands on this one
Hardware needs support for the OS? Isn’t that putting the bag in the cat?
Driver’s? They literally drive the hardware your computer is using
That’s software supporting the hardware. Cat in the bag.
Okay, let’s say you have a fuel injected car, but instead of using the 02 sensor to decide the fuel air mixture, it just squirts the same amount of gas every time.
The hardware might be able to achieve 400 hp, but the software means it only ever achieves 50 hp
It’s like that. The software drives the hardware. It doesn’t matter how good the hardware is, the software is the brain of the operation - if the software doesn’t know how to utilize the hardware properly, you’re going to have piss poor performance
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.
OP didn’t, it’s an extract from the article.
