Lisuan LX7G100 GPU achieves playable FPS in system with no Intel AMD or NVIDIA hardware inside

Q: Which games showed serious DX11 performance issues with the LX7G100 and how did DX12 compare?

Shadow of the Tomb Raider showed severe DX11 issues, running around 15 FPS in DX11 but running much better in DX12 at about 62 FPS average at 1080p highest settings. Other DX11 titles struggled too, with Rocket League only reaching 33.7 FPS average at high 1080p settings and GTA V managing just 12.1 FPS average at highest 1080p settings. Overall, games using DX12 ran considerably better on the LX7G100, delivering playable to strong framerates compared with the problematic DX11 performance.

Q: Which games ran well at 1080p on the LX7G100 and which were unplayable or underperformed (with example settings/FRAMES)?

Games that ran well at 1080p included Forza Horizon 5 (62.5 FPS average at low settings), Shadow of the Tomb Raider in DX12 (62 FPS average at highest settings), Resident Evil 3 (67.2 FPS average), Red Dead Redemption 2 (39 FPS average at medium settings), and Cyberpunk 2077 (32.8 FPS average). Underperforming or unplayable examples were Shadow of the Tomb Raider in DX11 (around 15 FPS), Rocket League (33.7 FPS average at high settings), Black Myth: Wukong (30 FPS average at low settings), and GTA V (12.1 FPS average at highest settings).

Q: What driver advantages does the LX7G100 have compared to other Chinese GPUs according to the article?

The LX7G100 has more stable and mature graphics drivers than other Chinese GPUs, which helped avoid the driver-related performance struggles seen with competitors. Its drivers are the first made in China to obtain Microsoft WHQL certification, indicating higher compatibility and quality.

YouTuber plugs a Lisuan LX7G100 into a gaming PC made without any Intel, AMD or NVIDIA hardware inside, featuring the Zhaoxin KX7000 8-core CPU.

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Aaron Klotz

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Published Jul 25, 2026 1:40 PM CDT
Updated Jul 25, 2026 4:13 PM CDT

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TL;DR: A Lisuan LX7G100 paired with a Zhaoxin KX7000 enabled a gaming PC built without Intel, AMD, or NVIDIA parts to reach playable frame rates: Forza Horizon 5 62.5 FPS, Cyberpunk 2077 32.8 FPS, Red Dead Redemption 2 39 FPS, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider 62 FPS in DX12. Driver gaps hurt DX11 titles and the Zhaoxin CPU bottlenecked performance. The LX7G100 offers mature drivers, WHQL certification, 6,144 cores, 12 GB GDDR6, 225W TDP, and roughly RTX 3060-class results despite RTX 4060 claims.

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Building an x86 system without any components from Intel, AMD, or NVIDIA is starting to become more feasible thanks to growing competition from Chinese CPU and GPU makers. YouTuber GPUSpecs published a video pairing the LX7G100 with a Zhaoxin KX7000 CPU to see how a gaming PC with no Intel, AMD, or NVIDIA components fares in games. Performance was playable, with more demanding AAA games such as Cyberpunk 2077 achieving just above 30 FPS.

The YouTuber initially ran the Zhaoxin KX7000 with 16GB of DDR4 and a Moore Threads MTT S80 GPU with 16GB of GDDR6 memory in a previous video. But the system struggled to play any graphically intensive games such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and Black Myth: Wukong at near 30 FPS due to immature graphics drivers. To fix this, the YouTuber swapped the MTT S80 for a Lisuan LX7G100 featuring more stable and mature graphics drivers.

The much more potent LX7G100 was able to boost frame rates to the point where performance was being bottlenecked by the CPU. Forza Horizon 5 achieved 62.5 FPS average at 1080p using low settings, Cyberpunk 2077 achieved 32.8 FPS average, and Red Dead Redemption 2 achieved 39 FPS average at 1080p medium settings. Shadow of the Tomb Raider in DX11 mode provided unplayable performance around 15 FPS, but in DX12 mode the game ran considerably better, achieving 62 FPS average at the highest settings at 1080p. Resident Evil 3 ran at 1080p, achieving 67.2 FPS average. Black Myth Wukong ran at 30 FPS average at 1080p low settings.

The only issues the system had were in DX11 games, as the Shadow of the Tomb Raider results alluded to, demonstrating one of the LX7G100's weaknesses in its graphics driver optimizations. Rocket League achieved just 33.7 FPS average at high settings at 1080p, and in GTA V the GPU was only capable of outputting 12.1 FPS average at the highest settings at 1080p despite the game's age.

The benchmark results show that building a gaming PC with purely Chinese components for the CPU and GPU is no longer unfeasible as long as you stick with games that support modern APIs such as DX12. The LX7G100 is one of the latest Chinese GPUs on the market, built on a 6nm process node with 6,144 cores, 12 GB of GDDR6 memory, and a 225W TDP. The best part of the LX7G100 is its rather mature graphics drivers compared to its Chinese competitors, featuring the first GPU drivers made in China to boast Microsoft WHQL certification. The GPU is also genuinely performant with advertised RTX 4060-class performance, though benchmark results show the GPU performs more in line with an RTX 3060.

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What frame rates did the Lisuan LX7G100 achieve in Cyberpunk 2077, Forza Horizon 5, and Red Dead Redemption 2 on the Zhaoxin KX7000 system?

On the Zhaoxin KX7000 system with the Lisuan LX7G100, Forza Horizon 5 averaged 62.5 FPS at 1080p low settings, Cyberpunk 2077 averaged 32.8 FPS, and Red Dead Redemption 2 averaged 39 FPS at 1080p medium settings.

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Which games showed serious DX11 performance issues with the LX7G100 and how did DX12 compare?

Question #3

Which games ran well at 1080p on the LX7G100 and which were unplayable or underperformed (with example settings/FRAMES)?

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What driver advantages does the LX7G100 have compared to other Chinese GPUs according to the article?

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CPU performance was arguably the weakest point of the YouTuber's setup, thanks primarily to the Zhaoxin KX7000's very low 3.7GHz clock speed. But the Zhaoxin KX7000 is far from the best CPU made in China. More advanced chips such as the Hygon C86-4G reportedly feature performance matching Intel's Core i7 Raptor Lake CPUs. If the YouTuber used one of these newer chips, that would likely help alleviate the CPU bottleneck issues.