[News] China’s Lisuan to Launch 6nm Gaming GPU on March 12, Targeting NVIDIA RTX

China’s latest challenger to NVIDIA may soon make its consumer debut. According to Wccftech, although the consumer GPU market has seen limited launches this year, Lisuan is preparing to introduce its G100 GPU for gamers on March 12.

As noted by CHEAA.com, Lisuan will showcase its Lisuan eXtreme (LX) series graphics cards at an exhibition. The products are the result of four years of development and have now entered mass production. The cards are powered by the 7G100 rendering-and-inference integrated GPU, built on Lisuan’s self-developed TrueGPU “Tiantu” architecture. The chip enables smooth gameplay while supporting mainstream open-source large language models. According to CHEAA.com, it is designed for PCs, workstations, and servers, covering both professional and consumer edge GPU markets.

MyDrivers notes that in late 2025, Lisuan’s 7G100 GPU completed its first batch of order deliveries, with some customers already receiving small quantities of the 7G100 series and beginning deployment. The chip is reportedly manufactured using TSMC’s 6nm process.

As highlighted by Fuyou Xiaoji on Xueqiu, Lisuan holds particular significance in China’s semiconductor push. Instead of simply licensing ready-made IP (intellectual property) and assembling components, the company has pursued full-stack self-development, from the instruction set to the computing core—an approach that even major domestic GPU makers such as Cambricon and Moore Threads have yet to achieve.

Lisuan G100: RTX 4060-Level Performance Claims Under Scrutiny

MyDrivers indicates that Lisuan’s G100 is China’s first domestically developed 6nm GPU, designed for high-performance graphics rendering and AI acceleration, with performance claimed to be comparable to NVIDIA’s RTX 4060 series. However, as MyDrivers also notes, Geekbench entries for the Lisuan 7G100 series—featuring 32 compute units and only 256MB of VRAM—suggest performance roughly comparable to older GPUs such as the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti released about 13 years ago and the AMD Radeon R9 370 from around a decade ago.

Meanwhile, Fuyou Xiaoji notes that Lisuan also faces further supply-chain challenges. Fully featured GPUs rely on HBM, and while the 7G100’s 384GB/s bandwidth is among the highest in China, it still trails the 1.8TB/s bandwidth of NVIDIA’s H200. Global HBM production capacity is largely dominated by Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, while China’s domestic substitution rate remains below 10%, meaning Lisuan must compete with international giants for limited HBM supply.

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