Moore Threads is China’s solely developer of gaming graphics playing cards, and its first era MTT S80 GPU simply bought an enormous driver replace (through ITHome) that enhances efficiency tremendously, an vital growth now that the US authorities has banned Nvidia’s quickest gaming GPU, the RTX 4090, from the nation. The MTT S80’s efficiency has now elevated by double digits in 5 AAA titles, with one sport getting an 80% enchancment. For first-generation merchandise, drivers are nearly as vital because the {hardware} itself, and it appears to be like just like the MTT S80 has room to develop even a yr after it was launched.
The brand new 240.50 model driver delivered the most important beneficial properties in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, with an 80% enhance to the typical framerate. In the meantime, the weakest enchancment of the 5 was in Far Cry: New Daybreak, which nonetheless noticed an enchancment of 30%. Valorant and Grand Theft Auto V each stood at 60% extra frames, and Assetto Corsa registered a 50% bump.
Moreover, the brand new driver additionally added assist for 18 different video games. These video games might have really run on the MTT S80 earlier than, however maybe not very effectively. Moore Threads did not element how significantly better these video games now run on the S80, although, which suggests both their driver-side optimization did not have a lot of an affect, or that the video games have been so unplayable earlier than that placing a quantity down would make little sense.
Drivers have at all times been robust to nail down for GPUs sporting new architectures, particularly when these GPUs are additionally the corporate’s very first product. Even Intel, which had years of expertise making drivers for built-in GPUs, has struggled to totally optimize its Arc Alchemist GPUs. Having launched over a yr in the past, Arc graphics playing cards are nonetheless getting driver updates with double and even triple-digit efficiency boosts.
Moore Threads has extra issues past supporting a first-generation product. The corporate lately laid off a considerable quantity of its workforce, which wasn’t all that huge to start with. That is all due to U.S. sanctions in opposition to Chinese language GPUs, similar to those that Moore Threads makes. Sanctions apparently have not stopped the corporate from engaged on its next-generation MTT S90 gaming GPU, which can hopefully profit from the S80’s maturing drivers.
This newest spherical of drivers alerts that the corporate is intent upon a gentle cadence of updates, as its final spherical of driver updates earlier this yr additionally offered substantial enhancements.