Intriguing new Chinese GPU benchmarked—falls at first hurdle, but we're still hopeful.
. On paper, the new graphics chip looks well specified. But in these early benchmarks, performance is patchy to say the least. If you were hoping for a cut-price GPU to save us all from crazy graphics card prices, this isn't it. And yet it is still intriguing.
The headline specs of the MTT S80 actually look promising. Manufactured on 7nm tech, it packs 4,096 so-called MUSA cores, 128 tensor cores and 16GB of GDDR6 running over a 256-bit. All told, it's good for 14 TFLOPS of raw compute power. Heck, this is even the world's first GPU with a PCI Express 5.0 interface.
Likewise, the design of the MTT S80's PCB looks plausible. So this new chip walks like a gaming GPU, it talks like a gaming GPU. Might it actually game like a gaming GPU, thereby offering an alternative to all those painfully pricey AMD and Nvidia graphics cards? Apparently not. Expreview hasn't exactly gone to town with the comparative numbers. In the ancient 3DMark06 DX9 benchmark, the MTT S80 gets spanked by RTX 3060, the latter being over 150 percent faster at both 1080p and 4K. In the slightly more current Unigine Valley 1.0 test, the results aren't much better. At 1080p the RTX 3060 is 100 percent faster. That climbs to over 200 percent faster at 4K.
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