THE graphics cards Chinese brands signed Moore Threads have progressed enormously in just one year.
Due to technical progress in the country, the rise of GPUs from China is inevitable. Investments are massive there so that national industries depend less on the outside.
American restrictions – which block exports of so-called “sensitive” products such as GPUs – have undoubtedly accelerated this Chinese awareness with directly palpable consequences.
On the importance of graphics drivers
Thus, over the last two years, the Chinese brand Moore Threads has taken the floor on numerous occasions to highlight the progress made on the S70 and S80 GPUs, its two most powerful models.
In February last year, we talked about the “ first GPUs to the PCI Express 5.0 standard “. This did not allow performance comparable to AMD/NVIDIA GPUs, but clearly showed the ambitions of the brand which then had to be content to compete with GeForce GT 1030/1050 while consuming/heating more.
Today, our colleagues from VideoCardz rightly point out that progress has continued at Moore Threads and that, if it is not a question of new GPUs, there are other ways to gain efficiency.
250% better on 3DMark and some games
The site EJ Hardware was actually able to repeat its testing of the Moore Threads S70 and S80 cards using the latest versions of their graphics drivers, the 240.50.
It’s hard not to be impressed by the results obtained with more than 2.5 times better performance on stage 3DMark Fire Strike (normal, extreme and ultra). Even more interesting, these gains are confirmed in the numerous games tested by our colleagues with, in certain cases, a doubling of performance: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Crossfire, DOTA 2, League of Legends, Risk of Rain 2.
Even with a doubling of performance, the S70 and S80 are far from competing with AMD’s RX 7000 and NVIDIA’s RTX 40 generations, but the prices are not the same either. One thing is certain in any case, the increase in power is there and, as we have also seen on Intel’s ARC cards, the drivers should not be neglected.
Source : VideoCardz
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