China's new homegrown gaming GPU flops in performance and price — flagship $485 LX 7G100 can't keep pace with Nvidia's older RTX 4060 (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Kind of weird review, they didnt even try to find a GPU that it is comparable to. Looking at this table, its probably more like a 4050. The thing to note here isnt the performance right now, its the progress compared to like 2-3 years ago. If they can keep the prices at this level and keep improving performance at the same rate, then in another 2-3 years they will outperform everyone in terms of price/performance ratio. Also they have a typo here in the table they misnamed the GPU.

[-] calamityjanitor@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Even worse, the card's model is '7G106', 7G100 is the series, like saying NVIDIA RTX 5000 series of cards.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago

Oof yeah that makes it even worse. Cringe for how established of a site tomshardware is.

[-] Visstix@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I feel like comparing it to the 4060 is fair seeing as it's cheaper than this one.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I would argue that prices are easier for consumers to compare so in order to get a good baseline for a review you should try to find a GPU that has similar performance and then compare the prices between the two. That gives you a more useful insight into what you get per $

[-] oce@jlai.lu 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

/remindme 3 years
They will most likely catch up like they are doing for electric for electric cars now.

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

For the Hardware, yes.

But hardware is less than half the battle. Intel found this out the hard way. 3 times.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I would think software is even easier to catch up because you don't need as much physical investment and experimenting is way cheaper, especially with LLM helping to learn now. I think DeepSeek is an example.
Innovation is difficult, but simply catching up with all the public research and open source solutions, not as much.

[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

oh god we will have vibecoded gpu drivers

[-] Meron35@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Literally Google IO this year.

They showed off an OS they allegedly vibecoded with antigravity, tried to get it to run Doom, failed due to missing graphics drivers, then vibecoded the missing drivers live.

I was equal parts appalled and impressed.

[-] 0tan0d@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

It seems the only thing the West is successfully out competing china in is income and wealth inequality.

[-] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 21 hours ago

How are we outcompeting them? China has the most billionaires in the world while having a fraction of the average western minimum wage. We're all in the same boat sadly just some are being told more coherent lies.

[-] 0tan0d@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

oh no we are losing there too.

[-] 16mhz@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

Goog go China, please keep it up and break the duopoly of AMD and Nvidia. And please keep the drivers open source for us Linux folks (and for the west propaganda that China is surveilling everything)

[-] carrylex@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

How unexpected...

and with unexpected I mean completely expected

Btw here's a better article: https://videocardz.com/newz/lisuan-lx-7g100-tested-chinas-new-gaming-gpu-runs-modern-titles-but-price-needs-a-reality-check

[-] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 23 hours ago

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago

Honestly this is an absolute win for China, keep in mind their homegrown GPUs and CPUs are only getting significantly better while US tech is stagnating (at least US consumer tech)

[-] Jiral@lemmy.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Like others have said, give them a few more years and then let us talk again.This thing makes a lot of sense already today however. While still inferior it is offering tech sovereignity for China. It is GPU supply the US cannot take away even if they were go block thd entire GPU black market. Also for non-high-end computing tasks for public applications this offers an option without US backdoors.

[-] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 1 points 18 hours ago

While I generally agree with other commenters here suggesting it's only a matter of time before these are vastly improved... are there examples we can point to in the wild of other Chinese tech products doing this?

To be clear, I think there probably are (maybe Zhaoxin's x86 CPUs?) but am hoping someone with more knowledge than me will chime in. Another potential one which comes to mind is the DeepSeek AI model family.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 21 hours ago

Not one mention of AI, let alone performance. Are we certain they evaluated the card on a task its really meant for?

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