A evaluation posted at EXPreview offers us our first take a look at Chinese language GPU maker Moore Thread’s new mid-range gaming competitor, the MTT S80 graphics card. This GPU is one in all Moore Thread’s strongest graphics playing cards up to now, packing a triple fan cooler setup and theoretically competing with Nvidia’s RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti, a number of the finest graphics playing cards obtainable, even shut to 2 years after they first launched.
For the uninitiated, Moore Thread is a Chinese language GPU producer that was established simply two years in the past, in 2020. The corporate has reportedly tapped a number of the most skilled minds within the GPU trade, hiring consultants and engineers from Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel, Arm and others. Moore Thread’s purpose is to provide home (for China) GPU options fully impartial from Western nations. These are alleged to be able to 3D graphics, AI coaching, inference computing, and high-performance parallel computing capabilities, and might be utilized in China’s shopper and authorities sectors.
The MTT S80 graphics card was developed with Moore Thread’s ‘Chunxaio’ GPU structure, which helps FP32, FP16, and INT8 (integer) precision compute, and is suitable with the corporate’s MUSA computing platform. The structure additionally employs a full video engine with H.264, H.265 (HEVC), and AV1 codec assist, able to dealing with video encoding and decoding at as much as 8K.
The MTT S80 comes with a totally unlocked Chunxaio GPU core, that includes 4096 MUSA cores, and 128 tensor cores, and clocked at 1800 MHz. The reminiscence subsystem makes use of 14 Gbps GDDR6 modules working on a 256-bit huge bus, with a 16GB capability. So far as specs go, it a minimum of seems to be first rate on paper.
The GPU operates with a goal board energy score of 255W, powered by each a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, and a single 8-pin EPS12V energy connector — sure, it is utilizing a CPU EPS12V slightly than an 8-pin PEG (PCI Specific Graphics) connector. That is as a result of the EPS12V can ship as much as 300W, and for customers that lack an additional EPS12V connector the cardboard features a twin 8-pin PEG to single 8-pin EPS12V adapter. And for the file, that is extra energy than even the RTX 3070 requires.
Show outputs include three DisplayPort 1.4a connectors and a single HDMI 2.1 port, the identical as what you will discover on most Nvidia GeForce GPUs from the RTX 40- and 30-series households. The graphics card has a silver coloured shroud, accented by matte black designs surrounding the suitable and left followers. The cooler includes a triple-fan cooler design, with two bigger outer followers and a smaller central fan within the center. The cardboard dimensions are 286mm lengthy and two slots huge.
The RTX 3060 Beats the MTT S80 in Early Benchmarks
Earlier studies on the Chunxaio GPU recommend it may well obtain FP32 efficiency just like that of an RTX 3060 Ti. The 3060 Ti has theoretical throughput of 16.2 teraflops, whereas the Chunxaio has a theoretical 14.7 TFLOPS. That is a bit decrease than Nvidia, nevertheless it does have twice the VRAM capability, so the {hardware} a minimum of seems able to competing with Nvidia’s RTX 3060 Ti.
Sadly, in keeping with EXPreview, the MTT S80 suffers from very poor driver optimizations. Whereas the MTT S80 is aimed on the RTX 3060 Ti when it comes to uncooked compute efficiency, in gaming benchmarks Nvidia’s RTX 3060 reportedly outpaces the MTT S80 by a major margin. The issue with the testing is that no comparative charts are supplied for the video games with RTX 3060 or different GPUs; solely textual content descriptions of the particular gaming efficiency are supplied, whereas the charts are for an odd mixture of titles.
EXPreview ran its benchmarks on an Intel take a look at rig with a Core i7-12700K, Asus TUF B660M motherboard, RTX 3060 12GB Strix, 16GB of DDR4 reminiscence, and an 850W PSU operating Home windows 10 21H2.
One of the best potential instance of precise gaming efficiency was Unigine Valley, the place the RTX 3060 12GB was wherever between 2x and a whopping 7.6x quicker than the MTT S80 within the DX9 and DX11 checks at 1080p and 4K resolutions. The MTT S60 averaged 26.1 FPS within the 4K DX9 take a look at, whereas the RTX 3060 spat out a whopping 197.9 FPS. Word additionally that Unigine Valley was developed and first launched in 2009.
3DMark06 — sure, one other slightly historic utility — confirmed comparable outcomes with the RTX 3060 being 2.5x quicker than the MTT S80 on common, at 1080p and 4K resolutions.
The MTT S80 managed to return out on prime in a number of the artificial checks, like PCIe bandwidth and pure fill charges. That is comprehensible on the PCIe hyperlink, because the S80’s PCIe 5.0 x16 configuration ought to vastly outpace the RTX 3060’s PCIe 4.0 x16 spec. Within the OCL Bandwidth Take a look at, the S80 averaged 28.7 learn and 42.8GB/s write speeds. The RTGX 3060 managed 18.3GB/s and 14.2GB/s respectively. In 3DMark06’s texturing checks, the MTT S80 hit 134.8 GTexels per second within the Single-Texturing Fill Fee take a look at, and 168.5 within the Multi-Texturing take a look at. The RTX 3060 was a lot slower within the Single-Texturing take a look at, with 59.9 GTexels/s, however got here again with 177.3 GTexels/s within the Multi-Texturing take a look at.
Moreover these the artificial and graphics checks, EXPreview did run some precise video games: League of Legends, Cross Hearth, QQ Velocity, QQ Dance, Fantasy Westward Journey, The Nice Heroes, Audition, Working Kart, Diablo III, Final Road Fighter IV, Siege, My World, and Want for Velocity: Sizzling Pursuit III. We’ll forgive you if you happen to do not acknowledge a few of these, as we do not both. Some are Chinese language variants of fashionable video games like Counter-Strike and Ultimate Fantasy.
Efficiency in a vacuum in fact would not inform us a lot. 149 fps at 1080p in League of Legends with max settings, and 128 fps at 4K? Nice! How did the RTX 3060 carry out? We do not know. Different efficiency outcomes are equally unhealthy, like hitting the 40 FPS framerate restrict in QQ Velocity, a slightly simplistic trying recreation.
However the evaluation does point out driver issues, texture corruption, and different points. It concludes with, “Compatibility must be improved and the longer term may be anticipated,” in keeping with Google Translate. That is hardly stunning for a brand new GPU firm. Hopefully future ‘evaluations’ of the MTT S80 will truly present extra real-world comparisons with trendy video games slightly than outdated checks which have little which means in immediately’s market.