Lisuan Tech Unveils 7G106—China’s First 6 Nanometer Gaming GPU

Presenting the brand new 7G106 gaming GPU. Its creator, Lisuan Tech, is a Chinese deep-tech startup that got down to develop their very own gaming chip with the potential to seize a big slice of the PC gaming graphics market, starting with China. The Chinese gaming trade is constructed on the philosophy of fascinating and fascinating gameplay with out making an attempt to wow the viewers with cutting-edge visible results; which implies it is making an attempt to focus on the biggest attainable install-base with mainstream GPUs. The new Lisuan Tech 7G106 is designed to be a domestically designed and acquainted GPU that players can attain out to, with out getting entangled within the pricing mess of established manufacturers.

The Lisuan Tech 7G106 is predicated on the corporate’s personal TrueGPU graphics structure. “7G”—pronounced equally to “miracle” in Chinese—displays the crew’s ambition behind the GPU and the challenges they needed to overcome. The 7G106 graphics processor is predicated on a monolithic die that is constructed utilizing the TSMC N6 (6 nm DUV) foundry node. It is a recent gaming GPU designed to speed up video games and 3D purposes with broad API assist: DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.3, and OpenGL 4.6. While DirectX 12 is included, ray tracing just isn’t out there, which means there isn’t a DirectX 12 Ultimate. The 7G106 comes with a feature-packed SIMD engine that is ready to run calculations with FP32, and the brand new INT8 information sort. The GPU has a most throughput of 24 TFLOP/s (FP32). The predominant compute language is OpenCL 3.0.

Internally, the SIMD engine is backed by a quite massive raster graphics pipeline, with as much as 192 TMUs, and 96 ROPs current on the silicon. In phrases of reminiscence, you get 12 GB of GDDR6 reminiscence throughout a 192-bit broad reminiscence bus, though the corporate hasn’t finalized the precise reminiscence frequencies but. The 7G106 is supplied with a contemporary video acceleration engine, able to hardware-accelerated AV1 and HEVC decoding at resolutions as excessive as 8K at 60 FPS. It additionally helps hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding at 4K at 30 FPS and HEVC encoding at 8K at 30 FPS. In phrases of monitor connectivity, you get 4 DisplayPort 1.4 outputs with assist for DSC 1.2b, the GPU would not characteristic HDMI outputs, most likely as a result of license price that the HDMI Consortium needs for every put in HDMI port. The GPU communicates with the remainder of the PC over a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 host interface.

As for energy, Lisuan Tech hasn’t put out the GPU’s energy figures, as a result of it’s but to determine on remaining clock speeds for engine and reminiscence. While the precise energy specs aren’t out there, renders of the reference-design 7G106 are proven with a single 8-pin PCIe energy connector, which permits a most energy supply functionality of 225 W (150 W from the connector, 75 W from the slot). At immediately’s occasion we additionally noticed a variant with a 16-pin energy connector, which in fact is ready to present rather more energy than a single 8-pin.

An fascinating side of the Lisuan Tech 7G106 is its Virtual GPU characteristic. It is a fully-featured single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) part, with as much as 16 containers, which helps you to share the GPU to digital machines working on the identical system, in order that it may be utilized in containerized enterprise environments and hyperscalers.

At its launch occasion earlier immediately, Lisuan Tech confirmed off the real-world capabilities of the 7G106. The chip was proven enjoying “Black Myth Wukong” at 4K Ultra HD decision with High settings, the place it produced playable framerates. In 3DMark Fire Strike, it scored 26,800 factors. Lastly, Lisuan Tech showcased a video of the 7G106 making it decode an 8K 60 FPS video on an 8K 60 Hz show that helps DSC 1.2b. The GPU additionally scored 111290 points in Geekbench 6.4.0 OpenCL benchmark.

At this time, Lisuan Tech doesn’t have any data on upcoming SKUs or pricing, it is simply too early. They acquired their A0 chip on May twenty fourth, which is the primary iteration of a semiconductor used for preliminary testing, so there’s a lot work forward. We’ll maintain you up to date.

Below, some pictures from immediately’s launch even in Shanghai