China’s Gaming GPU Lisuan G100 Starts Shipping

Lisuan Technology, a Shanghai-based startup founded in 2021 by former Silicon Valley engineers (including ex-S3 Graphics staff), has begun shipping its G100 series discrete GPUs to early customers as of late December 2025. This marks a significant milestone for China’s push toward graphics self-reliance, with mass production underway since September 2025 and broader retail availability expected in Q1 2026.

The journey to this point has been long. For years, China relied heavily on imports from NVIDIA and AMD, while early domestic efforts—like Jingjia Micro’s military-focused JM series from 2006 or Moore Threads’ 2022 MTT S80 consumer card—faced challenges with driver maturity and performance.

Lisuan learned from these, prioritizing software optimization alongside its fully in-house “TrueGPU” architecture (no licensed foreign IP).The flagship gaming model, the 7G106, features 12GB GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, PCIe 4.0, and claims up to 24 TFLOPS FP32 compute—positioning it against mid-range Western cards like the RTX 4060. It supports modern APIs (DirectX 12 Ultimate, Vulkan 1.3), includes an NRSS upscaling tech rivaling DLSS/FSR, and notably offers native Windows on ARM discrete GPU support—a feature ahead of competitors.

A June 2025 Geekbench leak showed dismal scores equivalent to a 2012 GTX 660 Ti, likely due to immature drivers and misreported specs (e.g., low clocks and tiny VRAM). But by July, improved samples with proper configurations outperformed the RTX 4060 in synthetics, trailing newer cards like the RTX 5060 by single digits.

Even if current real-world performance lands in mid-range territory rather than top-tier, this is a huge achievement: a from-scratch design on advanced 6nm silicon that boots, runs modern software, and scales for gaming/AI.

Many hurdles remain fixable through driver updates and iterations.Backed by government initiatives like Xinchuang—replacing millions of foreign systems with domestic hardware—Lisuan gains a protected market for real-world testing, data, and funding. This buffer could fuel rapid improvements, much like how state support has propelled other Chinese tech sectors.

Global availability remains limited, as Chinese GPUs rarely see wide international distribution amid export dynamics. Still, this debut signals the emergence of credible domestic graphics solutions, with broader implications for GPU-intensive fields like AI, cloud computing, and emerging web3 applications.

While global competition is fierce, the G100’s arrival proves China’s GPU ambitions are turning from announcements into tangible products. Expect more benchmarks soon as units reach reviewers and gamers.

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