The MTT S80 benchmark reveals that a Chinese homebrew graphics card cannot compete with today’s best graphics cards. Performance is lacking, but PCIe 5.0 gaming graphics cards don’t perform well in many games, some dating back to his 2013.
MTT S80 is the first homegrown graphics card in China to support DirectX API, representing a giant leap for domestic gaming. When Moore Threads announced his MTT S80, the chipmaker was dealing with up to 60 games. While the MTT S80 was able to run the rest of the titles, I later found out that the only problem was that only 11 of the 60 titles were on the official support list, but performance was an issue. MTT S80 supports both DirectX 9 and DirectX 11. However, the latter has a longer way to go than the former.
computer enthusiast Rechwerg (opens in new tab)The MTT S80 benchmark who kindly shared it talks about the struggles the graphics card has had to go through in some titles. According to reviewers: dota 2 and tomb raider, it wasn’t working. The former crashed as soon as I started the game, the latter refused to start.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) I was able to play on MTT S80. Löschzwerg pointed out that graphics drivers are hampering the performance of his MTT S80. This is because sometimes the GPU utilization did not reach 50%.Chinese graphics card performance The Elder Scrolls V: skyrim Comparing the low and very high presets, it was mediocre. The former was a little better, but nothing to brag about.
Löschzwerg emphasized that the MTT S80’s geometry performance is terrible. According to his observation, the frame rate dropped significantly. CS: go and Dust Ⅱ In scenes where geometry is abundant. Tessellation was another drawback of the MTT S80. Tessellation hurts because the driver is maturing early (200.2). Benchmarks and games crashed when tessellation was active, so the only stopgap solution was to disable tessellation entirely.
Driver performance and compatibility take full advantage of even the largest chip makers such as Intel. Unfortunately the first Arc driver slowed down his Alchemist graphics card’s performance with older APIs such as DirectX 9. Fast forward a few months and DirectX 9’s performance has improved by a whopping 43% since the first release. This helps demonstrate that a good product is enough without an equally good driver.
Moore Threads, by comparison, are newbies and don’t have the same resources as Nvidia, AMD, or Intel. As a result, it will probably take a long time for the Chinese chip makers to fix the bugs and have fully functional drivers that do not interfere with their hardware.
