The first wholly China-made graphics card, unfortunately, won’t usurp Nvidia or AMD any time soon. Maybe it doesn’t have to. With GPU and memory prices making building a PC a losing proposition, Chinese brands just have to prove they can take over from companies that have all but abandoned consumer PCs.
Chinese technology company Lisuan Tech’s first GPU, the Lisuan LX 7G100, is made entirely without Nvidia or AMD’s GPU microarchitecture. The company claimed on Chinese social media it already sold out of its original stock of 30,000 GPUs. Reviewers started slotting it into their PC rigs last week to determine just how capable it truly is, and the results are in. Equivalent to just under $500 in Chinese yuan, the LX 7G100 competes with low-to-midrange GPUs like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti or an AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT. The GPU runs on 12GB of VRAM, though that doesn’t mean much when cards with just 8GB of VRAM are winning in performance by double digits. © Lisuan Tech YouTuber Chaowanke (spotted first by VideoCardz) offered benchmark comparisons between the China-made card and other major GPUs in the same family. In tests like 3DMark’s “Fire Strike,” the LX 7G100 hit scores around or just under an Nvidia RTX 3060—a 6-year-old GPU. An RTX 4060 reportedly scores 25% better than Lisuan’s GPU. Intel’s budget-friendly Arc B580 nets 44% better scores in tests like 3DMark’s “Time Spy.” In games, average frame rates for Cyberpunk 2077 running at 1080p on Medium graphics settings with FSR 3 upscaling and frame generation enabled only equaled around 88 average fps. An RTX 4060 can get 232 average fps.
