China is showing off new graphics cards. It’s worth a laugh
Is a new Chinese powerhouse emerging in the graphics card market? Probably not, but there may soon be a wider selection in the low-end segment than before.
When it comes to graphics cards, most people think of companies like AMD and NVIDIAit will also appear less frequently Intel. However, there are more manufacturers on the market who are trying their hand. One of them is Moore Threads founded in 2020, wanting to show “the power of Chinese technological thought”.
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And it so happens that the Chinese have added a new model to their offer – MTT S50. It is supposedly a representative of the mid-price-performance segment, which perfect for gaming in Full HD. At least according to the manufacturer, because hard numbers say otherwise.
Moore Threads MTT S50 is a consumer graphics card equipped with 2048 MUSA cores and 8GB VRAM on a 256-bit data bus. Here we are dealing with power consumption up to 85 Wso the whole thing can be tamed with a single-slot cooling system with one fan.
Declared performance is 5.2 TFLOPS in FP32 calculations, slightly less than in the older MTT S60. This would place the new chip between the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce GTX 1060 6GB cards. So, solutions from the competition from 2016, which can now be bought for pennies on the secondary market.
The biggest problem may be the drivers. Previous tests of the flagship MTT S80 showed that due to the unfinished software, it is theoretically much more efficient the card had trouble competing with the GeForce GT 1030a complete budget game from 2018. It will probably only get worse here, which the producer is aware of when he advises playing games like Dota 2 or Counter-Strike 2 on Linux.
