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Let them cook we need more competition

Its only a matter of time untill a gaming pc made out of Chinese architecture components is legally considered by the US to be a weapon of mass destruction.

Give em a few years, and they'll have more powerful, cheaper GPUs than anything US manufacturers can make.

Not much needs more than a 4060

Nvidia’s middle finger to China is the reason they’ve developed open weight models like Qwen 3.6 27B that have modest compute requirements with performance catching up to frontier models. They have plenty of motivation to give Nvidia the middle finger right back, and I fully anticipate that a couple years from now, we will see Chinese open models on par with frontier models while also having inexpensive Chinese hardware to run them.

As the article itself points out, drivers remain as the main issue for Chinese graphics cards. Though they seem to have made great improvements compared to 2 years ago. I'm quite excited to see how they work on it further in the next few years.

Without depending on many externalities.

What? A baby GPU didn't do as well as an experienced professional with decades of experience?? I am in shock -_-

I've been gaming on an old AM4 motherboard, a B450 that was low spec when I bought it, it's been over five years now. I've been running a 4070ti on it for three years and I'd love to upgrade it but I'm not excited about Nvidia right now and there isn't a company on the planet that seems to want to offer me an alternative. At least China is flooding us with cheaper RAM.

Didn‘t expect anything less (or more) to be honest. Not at the moment. 5 years from now, though? It‘s entirely possible most new PC hardware will be made by Chinese brands that we have never heard of.

At least someone tries to compete. I'd get a slower Chinese any day over the fucking greedy nvidias. Spent 2500 for my last GPU. In 1990 I bought 2 high end computers for that. And some groceries. And go to the movies....

I'm so fed with all this. China will be the long-term winner in nearly everything.

And "flops" is the headline?? That they got this level of performance so quickly should have been. Wait a couple of years and let's see where are they at then. Holy cow that's really fast progress, i can see them beating Intel gpus pretty soon

Good progress nonetheless. Can't wait for China to flood the fuck out of the nVidia/AMD/Intel GPU oligopoly. It may take a decade but it will happen for sure.

They will improve and quickly.

Now that intel is likely out of the race, they are out last hope

The tech media is showing who their sponsors are with this shit. “Oh the new guy isn’t number one right away? Better give up!” Fuck right off.

You know what? I’m going out and buying another Intel GPU out of spite.

Toms hardware would likely have said the same thing about early EV cars from China about 5 years ago

If they get out some solid linux drivers, I'd buy one. Same thing for me when it comes to anything risc-v. I'm buying out of interest in a new alternative

Apparently it does get fairly similar performance in benchmarks, just not it games, which could indicate that the hardware is there and it's just the drivers that are lacking.

Which often is the case with Chinese electronics - often brilliant hardware with absolutely terrible software haphazardly slapped on, and support dropped before the thing even shipped.

Wait for the next couple generations… 🤔