Lisuan G100: The first Chinese gaming graphics card displays the performance … of a GTX 660 Ti
Generic visual of a gaming graphics card (not representative of the Lisuan G100 model), pending the first official images of the Chinese GPU. © Shutershock
Lisuan Technology promised a GPU worthy of current standards. Reality, at least in its first appearance on Geekbenchseems much more modest: performances close to a 13 -year -old Nvidia card. So, a monumental delay or a simple bad kicking?
Lisuan G100: the Chinese GPU with (still) prehistoric performances
Announced with fanfare as a response to the American giants Nvidia and AMD, the Lisuan G100 had everything to embody a national ambition: chip engraved in 6 nm, owner architecture (Truegpu) and local production via semiconductor manufacturing international Corporation, the largest founder of fleas in China (the Chinese equivalent of TSMC or Samsung Foundry). As well as a clear goal: to compete with a RTX 4060. But now the first tests come to question everything.
Spotted on Geekbench With a score of 15,524 points in opencl, the G100 does not even compete with current entry -level cards. Worse: it is in the same fork as the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, launched, and which we had tested, in … 2012. The kind of relic that we keep for nostalgia, not to play Starfield in 1080p.
Lisuan G100 on Geekbench 6. © Geekbench
In terms of technical sheet, it’s the cold shower: 32 calculation units, 256 MB (!) Of video memory, and a GPU frequency capped at 300 MHz. Even in 2025, it is difficult to imagine a gaming GPU with these characteristics, even if it is in the test phase.
Should we bury Lisuan too quickly? Not necessarily. Everything indicates that the card tested was a prototype, without finalized firmware or optimized drivers. A case of premature benchmark therefore, which is not uncommon in the validation phase. The Truegpu architecture, it still remains to decode – its real performance could prove to be much higher once the machine is well oiled.
In short, the Lisuan G100 is perhaps more an industrial manifesto than a direct competitor in Nvidia. Proof of concept, perfectible but strategic. It remains to be seen whether the commercial version will hold the promises of technological autonomy that Beijing proudly displays. For the moment? Barely a thrill.
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