A Chinese company called Moore Threads, started by former nVidia global VP and China GM, Zhang Jianzhong. They’re launching (I think tomorrow?) a new GPU which is supposed to be 3060 Ti level in compute performance. And. It has SR-IOV. Definitely something to keep an eye on. @wendell try getting your hands on one?
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If anyone gets more info about it, it’s definitely something to keep an eye on, and it’s not the first company with compelling GPU products that aren’t made by nVidia, AMD or intel either.
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I don’t think these will ever been seen outside china due to the spectre of Nvidia. It does look like they improved upon Maxwell at least somewhat though, even if most of that is from going 28nm>12nm.
Well you can’t just take an architecture and throw it at a smaller node without encountering issues.
At the same time I’m still waiting on somebody to review the newer PowerVR GPU’s nobody seems to have them though and those who do use them for themselves 
The Innosilicon GPUs must be out in super super small numbers (or only as ESs) because I have yet to see any benchmarks either.
From what I’ve been able to gather, they’ve provided a few companies a bunch of them and that’s about it, they haven’t been for sale in open market, they haven’t really been present outside China I think, so that’s why there are no benchmarks, probably will see something next year.
I don’t want to break dream, but when i see the driver issue with intel … and the size of intel …
I can’t see how this can be consumer ready
I might put MTT in a different category than Intel though, Its possible they got unintentional “help” from Nvidia for their drivers as well as their architecture. At one point MTT was effectively saying their S60 would natively run CUDA which makes me think their drivers had that fleshed out in them; speculation on my part though.
From what I’ve read, their drivers are really only optimized for only a few games. I’m not looking at it as a gaming GPU, but if you, say, want to run several virtualized desktops for stuff like web browsing or office or similar?
considering how Intel IGPU drivers have been terrible basically forever, I’m sure MTT can catch up fairly quick 
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Benchmarks are out for the S80 now, they are fairly disappointing and make Intel’s ARC cards look good. Basically the card can only run several dozen games, with most of them being Chinese, also mostly only supports dx9.
I think that this card is very interesting as an option for VMs that are running applications like office or web browsing, that have relatively low GPU demands, where you can share the GPU (IF you can share the GPU) between the host and the VMS.
And then you have your beefy GPU for the VMS that need it - but one at a time.
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I think you should rename this thread to Moore Thread 
So anyways, LTT got hands on one of the MTT S80’s or something and it looks pretty nice. Anyone with some base knowledge of electronics can probably analyze the PCB and understand what’s going on. Although in current political times I would not want to see a too successfull Chinese firm, it would be interesting to see how the market is going to evolve as it would need to share by four competitors. Also really interested in seeing if we can get some Linux drivers or have some legacy drivers to be able to work on this GPU.
In anycase best off luck to the new comers Moore Threads and Intel, hope you can push forward the technologies in the market and drive down prices.
did you even watch the video?..
looks pretty good?..
you need to raise your standards.
its spec’d like a 2060 in core count and formfactor…
it performs like a 1030 and only in direct x 9 games.
while doing it for 250w… 
while its a start its not a great, pretty good or even acceptable. but its a start and nvidia and amd should be worried.
Well, my standards are:
if it is better than a GTX 760 then it is pretty good.
But yea, as a start it is not like a concept, it is actually working. and I really want some competition in the market.
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Will be interesting whether it is an issue of drivers that can be / will be massively improved in time or not
Select dx9 games
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i would assume its drivers atm.
but honestly looking at linus’s video it could be hardware limitations.
it was running dx9 but the way it was doing it seemed more like it was being emulated rather than running on the metal.
so maybe theres a translation layer between the drivers and the metal…
im sure we will find out more as more testing is done. (assuming he will test it in a few months after drivers are updated)
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