China has its own companies specializing in the graphics card sector. One of them, Moore Threads, boasted the world’s first PCIe 5.0 graphics card. At launch, however, performances were underwelming and the perf/consumption ratio disastrous. But the brand is constantly improving its products with new driver releases. The latest version, 290.100, boasts performance gains that are sometimes doubled!
Up to 120% performance on Moore Threads boards!
Of course, the performance gains on these cards will vary from game to game. While A Plague Tale: Requiem boasts 120% performance gains, this is not necessarily the case for other games. Indeed, on Nikki (DX12), the gains are 40%, compared with a solid 50% on Death Stranding, for example. In other cases, the driver simply provides optimizations, as on Genshin Impact or Sonic Forces for example.
Of course, these are all theoretical gains, and we’ll have to wait for the press or video makers to get their hands on them before we can measure the pilot’s impact in concrete terms. What’s more, announcing percentage gains is often very flattering. Go from 1 to 2 FPS, and you can boast of a 100% performance gain, when in reality, it’s still unplayable.
Let’s not forget that the company’s cards are models of 100% Chinese design and production. Here, the brand has started from 0 to offer a functional GPU, and that’s no mean feat. As a reminder, the MTT S80 is a card featuring 4096 Musa cores and 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. In terms of frequency, the GPU spins at 1800 MHz and offers 14.4 TFLOPS in FP32. Finally, until the launch of the RTX 50, this was the only PCIe 5.0 card on the market. Nevertheless, despite this attractive specification, performance still lags behind the competition from NVIDIA and AMD. At the same time, graphics card production can’t be improvised.
