China's first 6nm GPU meant to rival RTX 4060, but loses to the GTX 660 Ti from 13 years ago

China's first 6nm gaming GPU was meant to compete with NVIDIA's mid-range GeForce RTX 4060, but it only matches the 13-year-old GTX 660 Ti.

China's first 6nm GPU meant to rival RTX 4060, but loses to the GTX 660 Ti from 13 years ago
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TL;DR: China's first 6nm Lisuan G100 GPU, designed to rival NVIDIA's RTX 4060, underperforms significantly, matching only the outdated GeForce GTX 660 Ti. Despite advanced 6nm manufacturing and high VRAM, its low clock speed limits performance, indicating challenges ahead for China's domestic GPU development.

China has just launched the nation's first 6nm GPU which was meant to rival NVIDIA's mid-range GeForce RTX 4060, but instead, it's only keeping up with the 13-year-old GeForce GTX 660 Ti graphics card.

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Lisuan Technology announced the power-on of its new G100 GPU last month, powered by its new in-house TrueGPU architecture, manufactured on the 6nm-grade process node, which is most likely coming from SMIC. The new G100 GPU is meant to have performance on-par with the RTX 4060, but it falls (very) short of those claims.

The new G100 GPU in its Geekbench testing reveals 32 Compute Units, 256GB of VRAM, and a 300MHz GPU clock. The 300MHz GPU clock seems quite odd, which points to how the performance is so low... so much so, that we have performance that has the new China-made GPU sitting at the GTX 660 Ti levels of performance. The same goes for 256GB of VRAM, which is quite a hefty amount of VRAM.

In the test bench was an AMD Ryzen 7 8700G sitting inside of the COLORFUL Battle-AX B650M-Plus motherboard, joined by 64GB of DDR5-4800 memory. The new Lisuan G100 GPU reached 15,524 points in OpenCL, which has the G100 sitting at the near-slowest GPU on Geekbench's public repository. This includes the likes of the GTX 660 Ti, Samsung Xclipse 940 on the Exynos 2400 (a mobile SoC), and the GCN-based Radeon R9 370.

We can expect mass production of the Lisuan G100 GPU later this year or early 2026, but it looks like there's a very long road ahead of the Chinese company if the early performance of the G100 looks like this.