TECH NEWS – In a few days, we will learn more about the Lisuan G100 GPU, which is not produced by Nvidia, AMD, or Intel.
With the launch of the Lisuan G100 GPUs, China has taken a significant step toward achieving technological self-sufficiency in graphics processing. Developed by Lisuan Technology, the G100 series is one of China’s first serious attempts to create a domestic competitor to industry leaders. This move demonstrates China’s ambition to reduce its dependence on foreign semiconductor technology and develop a competitive domestic GPU ecosystem. The Lisuan 7G100 can hold its own as a gaming graphics card. Currently, shipments are limited to Chinese business customers, but it is expected to enter the retail market in early 2026.
Lisuan Technology was founded in 2021. The company nearly went bankrupt in 2024 but was saved by a significant capital injection. Since then, the company has made remarkable progress with its graphics architecture, designed from scratch without foreign licenses and named TrueGPU. This architecture is used in the Lisuan G100, whose graphics chip is manufactured by China’s SMIC using a 6-nanometer lithography process. Early versions of the Lisuan G100 GPU have appeared on Geekbench. According to the latest leaked information, the Lisuan G100 GPU outperforms the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 and Intel Arc A770 in this benchmark, falling just short of the RTX 5060.
This proves that the hardware is there; everything depends on the software. Considering that this company was founded in 2021, created its own architecture, and will offer the performance of a mid-range Nvidia GPU by 2026, we are talking about impressive performance. The Lisuan G100 (known as the 7G100 in the gaming market) uses the 7G106 graphics chip. This chip has 192 TMUs and 96 ROPs and is paired with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory. It has a TDP of 225 W and therefore requires an 8-pin power connector.
There is also a professional version that uses the 7G105 chip. The main difference is that it has 24 GB of GDDR6 memory with ECC support. This chip delivers 24 TFLOPS of FP32 performance. Notably, the gaming GPU debuts with support for DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 3.0 APIs. Therefore, it is expected to either not support older games or perform poorly with them.
Even if the GPU performs like an RTX 4060 or better, that would be a significant achievement. This paves the way for China to start selling computers equipped with entirely Chinese-developed and manufactured hardware.
Source: Tech4gamers, Ithome
