Chinese GPU maker sells out over 30,000 gaming GPUs within 48 hours despite lukewarm benchmarks — LX 7G100 proves hype trumps performance

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Chinese GPU maker sells out over 30,000 gaming GPUs within 48 hours despite lukewarm benchmarks — LX 7G100 proves hype trumps performance

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setx Well, it would be absolutely wrong if for commercial success a firm would need Tom's approval. Reply

PEnns So, according to the article, it's considered a "3060" equivalent card and thusly a "weak" card…. And yet, Steam surveys show a huge number of people still playing 1050 – 16xx cards! Maybe those are the people who are buying those cards because they are truly a huge (and affordable!!) improvement. And on top of that, show me how many games that can't not be played by a 3060 equivalent?? Maybe 10 on a good day, and I am being generous today! And don't resort to that silly Nvidia DLSS gimmick to make a counter point: Ain't gonna happen! PS: Nvidia is "thinking" about restarting the 3060 line according to articles here and elsewhere…..so maybe that Chinese company is on to something, maybe a pre-emptive strike against Nvidia and beating it to affordable (well, for many it seems so) and most importantly, available cards! Reply

DingusDog setx said: Well, it would be absolutely wrong if for commercial success a firm would need Tom's approval. Settle down this isn't wccftech. Reply

Lieutenant Barclay DingusDog said: Settle down this isn't wccftech. True but it's no less a rag Reply

usertests PEnns said: And yet, Steam surveys show a huge number of people still playing 1050 – 16xx cards! Maybe those are the people who are buying those cards because they are truly a huge (and affordable!!) improvement. Those kinds of people probably aren't spending $485 on a "3060" with worse drivers, or they would have upgraded to something else already. But Lisuan nevertheless found 30,000 Flounder Edition buyers in a country of 1.4 billion, so good job. BTW the market is so bad that the RX 6400 is going for $160, and RTX 3050 6GB LP for $260+. We need a good new 75W GPU, stat. Reply

IBM296 It's not equivalent to 3060. The LX 7G-100 performance is on par with a 2060 and thus is 3 generations behind the competition. Reply

dion_ I really dig the design and the overall clean aesthetic. Honestly, I hope they succeed. Reply

bit_user My understanding is that it did better on compute benchmarks than it did on gaming. So, maybe a lot of those buyers have compute applications in mind? We also don't know how many were sold to government or state-backed organizations that might mandate or prefer to buy indigenous products vs. imports. Reply

-Fran- So what does the Asian market play? Does a 3060-class GPU meet those expectations? Do Chinese have proud on their own domestic products? There's a lot of assumptions and unanswered things in the article/news which should be quick to be brought up in my view. Intel had a rocky start and, from what we've seen, didn't make it out from the hole. This smaller company seems to have taken the right bets in the right market to me. I hope they grow and bring competition to the global market. Regards. Reply

bit_user -Fran- said: So what does the Asian market play? Does a 3060-class GPU meet those expectations? Good point. It'd be reasonable to expect Chinese game developers to focus on optimizing for their domestic hardware. -Fran- said: Intel had a rocky start and, from what we've seen, didn't make it out from the hole. Yeah, MooreThreads also started out extremely rough. Their drivers did improve, but never close to the level of performance they originally claimed. Still, performance can pretty much only go up, from here. Reply

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