China’s first 6 nm GPU boots with performance similar to decade-old GTX 660 Ti

China reached a technical milestone when Lisuan Technology’s G100 completed its final design stage and booted for the first time. It is also the first graphics processor said to be manufactured on a domestic 6 nm node. The chip is part of the firm’s in-house TrueGPU architecture and, on paper, is intended to compete with Nvidia’s budget-class GeForce RTX 4060—even though that model has already seen a successor in the RTX 5060 lineup.

Exact specifications remain sparse, but a Geekbench entry lists 32 Compute Units, 256 MB of reported VRAM, and a core clock of just 300 MHz. Those figures likely reflect placeholder firmware values rather than final silicon limits; nevertheless, they offer a snapshot of the device’s current state.

The same benchmark assigns the G100 an OpenCL score of 15,524 points, placing it alongside legacy cards such as Nvidia’s 13-year-old GeForce GTX 660 Ti and AMD’s Radeon R9 370. The test system paired the G100 with a Ryzen 7 8700G APU and 64 GB of DDR5-4800 on a B650M motherboard. In short, real-world performance has yet to match Lisuan’s marketing target.

Software remains a critical bottleneck. Previous Chinese GPU startups—including Moore Threads and Birentech—have struggled mainly because of immature drivers, not purely because of hardware design. Lisuan faces the same hurdle and will need robust driver optimization before the G100 can challenge established brands.

Risk production is underway, and volume manufacturing could begin late this year or early 2026. There’s much work ahead: raising clock speeds, fixing memory reporting issues, and maturing the driver stack to boost compute and gaming performance beyond decade-old levels.