Lisuan Technology isn’t a name many would be familiar with, but the company quietly made the news when it became the first Chinese company to power on its domestically-made 6nm GPU, the G100. As of last week, the GPU maker officially introduced the 7G106, the first ever GPU to be built on TSMC’s N6 process.
Specs-wise, the 7G106 uses Lisuan’s TrueGPU architecture, which is capable of supporting a wide range of APIs, including DX12 (without ray tracing), Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 3.0. Beneath the hood, the GPU features 192 TMUs, 96 raster units (ROPs), and supports up to 12GB GDDR6 graphics memory, across a 192-bit memory bus. It also uses hardware-accelerated AV1 and HEVC decode up to 8K60, plus encoding for AV1 at 4K30 and HEVC at 8K30.
As for how it performs, a recent showcase of the Lisuan 7G106 showed off the card playing Black Myth Wukong at 4K resolution with playable framerates, although the exact average framerate was not disclosed but there is video proof of it in action. On the synthetic benchmark level, the card reportedly scored 26,800 points on UL’s 3DMark Fire Strike and 111,290 points in Geekbench 6.4.0 OpenCL test. For comparison’s sake, that’s about 10% faster than NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4060, and just below an RTX 5050.
At the time of writing, Lisuan wasn’t providing any official release date and given the circumstances, it seems likely that the 7G106 may only see circulation within China first. For another matter, Lisuan isn’t the only Chinese GPU maker: a couple years ago, a Chinese company called Moore Threads also made a GPU, the MTT S80, but it was based on the older 12nm process.
That said, the card was PCIe Gen5 compliant, but in terms of performance, it understandably wasn’t capable of holding a candle to the more dominant GPUs on the market, especially when it came DX12 titles.
(Source: Videocardz, ITHome, Bilibili)
