Submitted 1 day ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.howtogeek.com/are-chinese-gpus-coming-to-eat-nvidias-lunch/
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.
Good, more competition, better prices, fuck nvidia. My thoughts in a bag
More competition fuck yeah. We should all be excited.
device operating with only 32 Compute Units, a bafflingly low 300 MHz clock speed, and a virtually unusable 256 MB of video memory
Oh, so they’re going to sell like all those 2TB pendrives and 32GB RAM octa-core tablets
Ohhhh they’ll get better. As long as they support OpenSource Drivers.
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.
And China is unable to sell in the west due to patents on x86 architecture.
Would be interesting to see how their CPUs fare against the Intel/AMD offerings
How funny would it be if those dummies create an AI that just tells everyone else how to do it. lol
I’m down for the competition. 660TI performance is ROUGH though.
it’s a beautiful piece of hardware. i still use it after ten odd years
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 😔
A chinese product boasting top quality and instead delivering low/mid? What a surprise.
This article is pretty light on details, and the only number they have comes from a “leaked GeekBench score” which could be literally anything. We’ll have to wait for a real tech outlet to pick up a sample and benchmark it properly.
It appears to fall short of its marketing promises, though
Figures.
Can't wait for Gamers Nexus to get their hands on this one
An alleged Geekbench OpenCL listing
this does not look very legitimate to me
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.
sirboozebum@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
orclev@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
glimse@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sounds like it’s more than “a little over one generation behind” if it benchmarks near an Nvidia card released 14 years ago??
turkalino@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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…
Mihies@programming.dev 1 day ago
I suppose Chinese might quickly catch on. They certainly don’t lack resources.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Forgot Intel? lol
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 12 hours ago
Didn’t they drop their arc cards?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Name one industry the Chinese haven’t beaten sooner or later. When they apply to a problem , they typically lead the world.
Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com 18 hours ago
Anime