Japanese site PC Watch got hold of a Moore Threads MTT S80 GPU , which is one of the first Chinese GPUs. There was a lot of curiosity to know how this graph behaves in games.
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Some first comparisons in games of the MTT S80 graphics card have seen the light, facing directly with a GTX 1050 Ti , which is a graphics card that is already approximately 7 years old.
The MTT S80 graphics card was built on the Chunxaio architecture, which employs 4096 MUSA cores. The GPU runs at 1.8 GHz clocks and a maximum performance of 14.2 TFLOPS . The memory capacity is 16 GB of GDDR6 memory and it works with a speed of 14 Gbps. The bus is 256 bits and the bandwidth. The architecture appears to be based on PowerVR from Imagination Technologies. It is curious that this GPU uses the PCIe 5.0 x16 interface, despite not taking advantage of it at all.
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The graphics card, according to the tests, is unable to run DX12 or Vulkan games, but some DX11 games are. Nor could benchmark tools like 3DMark run in their recent versions, the only one that worked was 3DMark 06.
Based on benchmark tests, the already dated GTX 1050 Ti for gaming far outperforms this Chinese graphics card in all tests. When we say that it far exceeds them, we are talking about +208% in favor of the Nvidia GPU . It should also be noted that the performance in DX9 was somewhat better, where the lead narrows to +86% in favor of the GTX 1050 Ti.
Another aspect that can be commented on is the performance of Asetto Corsa , which was only 3-4 fps on average in DX11. This makes us think that there may be a lack of optimization from the drivers , which could apply to all the other games tested. We are talking about a GPU with more memory, more bandwidth and almost seven times more FP32 computing capacity (14.2 TFLOPS), but that does not translate into gaming performance.
Power consumption is also an aspect to consider and here, again, the Moore Threads GPU is left to shame. While the GTX 1050 Ti only consumes around 60W on average, the MTT S80 consumed 142W on average.
It seems that there is a lot of work to be done at the driver level for this graphics card, which could make it perform much better than what we see now. Its performance may be disappointing right now, but it’s interesting that China is starting to make its own graphics cards. We will keep you informed.