Why it matters: Over the past several years, Chinese companies have been decorated developing x86 processors, DRAM, and NAND retentivity that could soon replace the need for foreign solutions. In the meantime, no one noticed that a company called Innosilicon has developed the first Chinese graphics carte that'southward capable of gaming.

While anybody looking to buy a GPU has their eyes set on what AMD, Nvidia, and Intel are doing, it's piece of cake to miss the repose work of Chinese companies looking to suspension into the consumer and server GPU markets. Dorsum in September, we learned that Jingjia Micro (also known as Jingjiawei) was testing ii graphics cards — a lower end model that is said to be as powerful as a GeForce GTX 1050 or Radeon RX 560, and a college end model that could rival something like a GeForce GTX 1080 or an RX Vega 64.

Jingjiawei isn't the just Chinese company trying to develop a GPU. Innosilicon set out on a similar path by partnering with a company called Xiandong, who already has some experience in making server GPUs. The two companies made a graphics card they telephone call the Fenghua 1 and can exist used as a compute accelerator card for the information center or equally a desktop graphics card.

Interestingly, the Fenghua ane is based on PowerVR IP from Imagination Technologies. It also supports APIs similar OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenGL ES, OpenCL, and DirectX, which is a offset for whatever Chinese GPU. And since it'southward too aimed at the consumer market, information technology comes with an HDMI 2.ane port, a DisplayPort one.4, and even a DVI port.

Not much is known nigh the hardware itself, but the announcement does say the menu features Micron GDDR6X video retention, and that the GPU is based on 1 of Innosilicon'southward Innolink chiplet designs. Additionally, the card is compatible with the PCIe iv.0 standard and works under Windows, Linux, and Android environments, merely the press release doesn't tell usa annihilation useful most its performance. The simply number we get is FP32 operation, which is rated at 6 teraflops. For reference, AMD's RX 6600 is capable of 7.three teraflops and Nvidia's GTX 1660 SUPER tin attain a hair over 5 teraflops.

Another hint about the potential of the new Fenghua 1 graphics bill of fare comes from Imagination Technologies chief marketing officeholder David Harold. Back in October 2022, he said the 11th generation PowerVR architecture has seventy percent amend performance-per-watt when compared to existing desktop GPUs.

If true, this claim may speak to the energy efficiency of the Fenghua 1, merely we'll have to wait and meet how it performs in real earth tasks against existing solutions from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.

The new graphics bill of fare is expected to become bachelor to consumers sometime in the 2022-2023 timeframe.