China built its first graphics card using advanced 6nm technology but the results fell short of expectations. Lisuan created the G100 graphics processor after US trade restrictions pushed Chinese companies toward self-reliance. The company promised their new chip would match NVIDIA's RTX 4060 performance levels. Early testing revealed the graphics card performs like a thirteen-year-old NVIDIA GTX 660 Ti instead. Benchmark scores showed the chip earned just 15,524 points on Geekbench testing.
The disappointing results likely came from testing an early sample rather than the finished product. Lisuan's graphics card contains 32 compute units and 256 megabytes of video memory. These specifications seem low for modern 6nm manufacturing...