If you haven’t already heard, China has its own “AAA-grade” graphics card, potentially breaking the NVIDIA-AMD duopoly. China-branded non-NVIDIA and non-AMD GPUs aren’t new, but this one from Lisuan Tech, the LX 7G100 Series, is not just any GPU. Said to be roughly on par with the GeForce RTX 4060, the LX 7G100 Series is built on the tech company’s self-developed TrueGPU architecture using a 6 nm process. The ISA is also entirely homegrown.
Performance-wise, it is said to be able to comfortably run AAA titles like Black Myth: Wukong and Call of Duty. But perhaps the most significant news surrounding the launch of the LX 7G100 is that it has received Microsoft WHQL certification, putting Lisuan Tech in the same club as NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel.
That alone is quite an achievement. Making a graphics card is hard. Making one that plays nicely with Windows is a whole different boss battle.
The Lisuan Tech LX 7G100 Series packs 12 GB of GDDR6 memory and supports up to 8K at 60 Hz with HDR and FreeSync, complete with DSC support. Outputs come by way of four DisplayPort 1.4a connectors, while API support includes DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 3.0. Video encoding tops out at HEVC 8K at 30 fps, while decoding handles HEVC 8K at 60 fps.
Physically, it measures 294 × 120 × 49 mm and uses an active blower-style cooling setup. That old-school blower fan may not be sexy, but anyone who remembers multi-GPU setups will appreciate how good it is at shoving hot air out of the case.
Beyond gaming, Lisuan is also pitching the card for content creation. Video production, game development, editing, exporting, screen recording, and live streaming are all on the menu. It even has AI ambitions. The company says the LX 7G100 can run local large language models, Copilot, agents, and even OpenClaw, offering the privacy and latency advantages of local AI.
Not bad for a company most people outside China probably had not heard of until now. If nothing else, the graphics card market just got a little more interesting—well, almost. From what I have read, Chinese consumers aren’t as excited because this card costs 3,888 yuan [CH]* (574 USD), which is more than the RTX 5060 in China, and so… Not only that, but early independent testing suggests the LX 7G100 has yet to live up to its RTX 4060 aspirations. But hey, it is a good start nonetheless.
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Images: Lisuan Tech [CH].
