With the release of the Lisuan G100, the nation’s first high-end gaming graphics card, which reportedly outperforms NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4060 and approaches the more recent RTX 5060 in benchmark tests, China’s GPU industry has advanced significantly. For China’s indigenous semiconductor industry, which has long sought to become independent of Western tech behemoths like NVIDIA and AMD, this marks a critical turning point.
The G100, created by Lisuan Technology, has performed well in preliminary OpenCL benchmarks. The card outperformed the RTX 4060 with 111,290 points when paired with an AMD Ryzen 5 7600 processor, surpassing its 101,028 points. Despite falling just short of the RTX 5060’s 120,916, the difference is negligible, indicating that Chinese GPUs are quickly catching up to international standards. This is a significant improvement over the previous iterations of the G100, which had trouble even matching NVIDIA’s ten-year-old GTX 660 Ti.
Given that Chinese GPUs are frequently criticised for having subpar driver optimisation, the benchmark success is especially remarkable. Nonetheless, the performance of the G100 shows that Lisuan Technology has advanced significantly in both software and hardware. This innovation may usher in a new era of competitive, domestically made gaming GPUs in China.
The G100’s specifications include 48 compute units, 12GB of VRAM (probably GDDR6), and a maximum clock speed of 2000 MHz. Its supposedly 6nm process, which is probably produced by China’s SMIC foundry, strengthens its entirely domestic foundation.
Although companies like Moore Threads and BirenTech have spearheaded China’s efforts to create domestic GPU substitutes, the Lisuan G100 is the first to exhibit genuine promise in the consumer gaming market. The G100 might truly disrupt the GPU market, not only domestically but potentially internationally, if it makes it to market with its current performance unaltered.