This specific GPU is… Kind of a mixed bag. It’s supposed to be built on a 6nm process, and the G100 is, according to Lisuan, the first domestic chip to genuinely rival the NVIDIA RTX 4060 in raw performance, delivering 24 TFLOPS of FP32 compute. It even introduced support for Windows on ARM, a feature even major Western competitors had not fully prioritized.

It appears to fall short of its marketing promises, though. An alleged Geekbench OpenCL listing revealed the G100 achieving a score of only 15,524, a performance tier that effectively ties it with the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, a card released in 2012. This places the “next-gen” Chinese GPU on par with 13-year-old hardware, making it one of the lowest-scoring entries in the modern database. The leaked specifications further muddied the waters, showing the device operating with only 32 Compute Units, a bafflingly low 300 MHz clock speed, and a virtually unusable 256 MB of video memory. We’ll likely see more benchmarks as the GPU makes its way to the hands of customers.

These “anemic” figures might represent an engineering sample failing to report correctly due to immature drivers—a theory supported by the test bed’s configuration of a Ryzen 7 8700G on Windows 10. But still, if true, the underlying silicon may still be fundamentally incapable of reaching the promised RTX 4060 performance targets, regardless of the actual specifications that are being reported.

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      According to the article, the actual performance is on par with a GTX 660 Ti

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        Eh, maybe. The actual performance seems to be unknown. They’re assuming the geekbench score is legitimate, but there’s no way to really know exactly how well it will do when it actually ships. It’s probably safe to assume somewhere between the two, but either way it’s not competing with current gen AMD or Nvidia cards, and might not even be competing with current Intel GPUs.

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      Maybe you should read more than 1 paragraph before commenting. And in general.

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        Maybe you should stop assuming things before commenting. And in general. You might also want to reread the article you seem to have skipped some important details.