Chinese company Xindong / Innosilicon unveiled its Fenghua 1 (Fantasy 1) graphics card in mid-November and released its performance specs today. While the Fenghua 1 cannot compete with the most powerful offerings, it aims to offer modern mid-range GPUs that can compete with AMD and Nvidia.
The card is based on Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR architecture and provides access to the most popular APIs on the market, such as DirectX, Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenCL, OpenGL ES, Caffe 1.0, TensorFlow 1.1.2, and ONNX. The PowerVR-based GPU comes with software stacks for Android, Linux, and Windows.
The Fantasy 1 comes with one or two chips. The former has a processing power of about 5 TFLOPS FP32 for graphics and 25 INT8 TOPS for AI/ML, which is comparable to the performance of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 GPU, with the option to equip it with 4GB/8GB/16GB GDDR6 or GDDR6X memory. Power consumption is around 50 watts, which is significantly lower than Nvidia’s GPU at 160 watts.
The dual-chip GPU doubles that number with the FP32 computing power of about 10 TFLOPS FP32 and 50 INT8 TOPS for AI/ML. It offers a similar performance to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 with 8 GB/16 GB/32 GB of memory.
The card features a PCI-Express 4.0 interface and DisplayPort 1.4 + HDMI 2.1 video outputs.
As we’ve seen from AMD and Nvidia in the past, dual-GPU designs can double the performance and create a number of other hurdles in real-time graphics processing. Not to mention the drivers, which if not kept up to date, will cause problems with most newly released games.
Currently, it is not yet known when these GPUs will be commercially available. Besides availability and performance, we would also need to know the prices to determine if they can compete with AMD, Nvidia, and Intel Arc.