China’s First 6nm GPU Aimed to Rival NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4…

China’s First 6nm GPU Aimed to Rival NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4060

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China’s Lisuan G100 is the country's first domestically produced 6nm GPU, initially claimed to rival NVIDIA’s RTX 4060, but early benchmarks show its performance is closer to the decade-old GTX 660 Ti.
Geekbench results reveal the G100 scores just 15,524 points in OpenCL, putting it behind modern GPUs and in line with much older AMD and NVIDIA models.
The tested version of the G100 has 32 compute units and only 256 MB of VRAM, suggesting it may still be an early prototype or development unit.
Despite underwhelming performance, the G100 represents progress in China's semiconductor independence using SMIC’s 6nm process, also used in Huawei’s Kirin chips.
A major hurdle for Chinese GPU makers, including Lisuan, remains poor software support and drivers, which significantly impact real-world performance and competitiveness.

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