China agency Lisuan’s homegrown 6nm G100 sequence GPUs introduced with as much as 12GB of VRAM — LX 7G106 can play Cyberpunk 2077 and different standard Steam video games, arrives June 18 in China

Lisuan Tech, a relative newcomer within the area, has rapidly risen to reputation as a consequence of its daring ambitions to catalyze China’s self-reliance dream. The firm unveiled its G100 sequence of discrete GPUs with trendy options and efficiency final 12 months, going after AMD and Nvidia’s duopoly within the area. Despite earlier experiences pointing to those GPUs already transport, Lisuan has simply announced their official launch date.

The G100 sequence launches on June 18, with preorders opening on March 17 subsequent week. The date was revealed at AWE 2026, a tech convention in China, the place the corporate additionally introduced new graphics playing cards aimed on the skilled phase. We’ve identified since final 12 months that Lisuan has created two GPUs — 7G105 and 7G106; the previous being a server design and the latter supposed for gaming.

Now we all know the gaming GPU will formally be known as Lisuan Extreme LX 7G106, whereas the skilled GPU has possible been break up into at the least two, if not three, SKUs. Let’s first speak in regards to the LX 7G106. New design apart, it options 12 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, 192 texture items, and 96 ROPs. It has an FP32 throughput of as much as 24 TFLOP/s, and early benchmarks put it within the RTX 4060 ballpark.

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That’s mighty spectacular for a completely self-developed GPU as a result of Lisuan Tech has claimed that its “TrueGPU” structure has been constructed fully from scratch. That means the instruction set, compute core, and software program stack are all in-house. At the launch occasion, Lisuan stated the LX 7G106 can play dozens of the preferred Steam video games, together with Cyberpunk 2077, Black Myth: Wukong, and the RE4 Remake.

All that’s made doable as a result of G100 GPU’s assist for contemporary graphics APIs, akin to DirectX 12. In fact, Lisuan says the entire lineup is compatible with the latest versions of DirectX, Vulkan, OpenCL, and OpenGL. The company even supports the Windows-on-Arm initiative— something that neither of the big three GPU makers does — and the G100 series is compatible with Linux as well.

Alongside the LX 7G106, Lisuan unveiled the LX Ultra, LX Pro, and LX Max professional GPUs as well, with different VRAM configs. The LX Max features 12 GB of GDDR6 memory, while the LX Pro doubles that to 24 GB. The LX Ultra also has 24 GB of VRAM, but it supports ECC. The Ultra rocks a blower-style cooler and looks different from both the LX Pro and Max, which share basically the same design.

Previously, we knew the 7G105 GPU would be powering Lisuan’s professional card, so it’s likely that at least the LX Ultra and LX Pro are using that, given the 24 GB VRAM spec. The LX Max could be using a repurposed 7G106 GPU or just a cut-down 7G105, but we don’t have enough info on this. Regardless, all of these SKUs, gaming or professional, are compatible with both mainstream CPUs and local Chinese ones.

We’ve only really heard Lisuan itself talk about the performance of the G100 series; no independent reviews have come out since the initial announcement, but hopefully the Chinese release changes that. We don’t know how the LX 7G106 stacks up against competing options from Intel, AMD, or Nvidia. A potential global launch will be largely predicated on how performant it really is without regional market restrictions.

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