One of the most interesting graphics cards does not come from AMD or Nvidia, but from a Chinese manufacturer. The reason behind this: China wants to become more independent of US products.
The Chinese manufacturer Xiang Dixian has presented a new graphics card at the ICCAD Expo. This is reported by the English-language magazine WCCF-Tech.com. The presented so-called Fuxi graphics card is based on a chip from Imagination Technologies: The chip is DirectX capable and also offers features such as ray tracing and upscaling. With 12 GB of video memory, the card is also equipped for the future.
The card is technically exciting because it is said to offer similar features on paper as graphics cards from AMD or Nvidia, but independent benchmarks and precise specifications are still missing, leaving the real performance unclear. Moreover, there is another problem: The chip from Imagination Technologies is allegedly said to support DirectX only up to version 11.0 and not the latest version 12. This is stated by the manufacturer Imagination Tech on its own website. This would mean certain limitations in everyday use.
How fast is the graphics card? The manufacturer already showed a short demo of the graphics card with the game Black Myth: Wukong at the ICCAD Expo. In the shown clip, with ray tracing enabled, the GPU is said to have reached about 35 FPS. Black Myth: Wukong supports both DirectX 11 and DirectX 12.
In the end, it mostly depends on how good the drivers for the graphics card will be.
The Chinese tech market wants to become more independent of the USA
Why are such graphics cards important? Due to strong US export controls, the Chinese market wants to become more independent to remain competitive. With the presented graphics card, they aim to offer a modern and locally available graphics card with DirectX support without being constantly reliant on US products from AMD or Nvidia.
They mainly have gamers and professional users in mind, who care less about perfect performance but more about having hardware available at all.
Will the graphics card also come to Europe? Often, these graphics cards are primarily produced for the domestic Chinese market to become more independent of the US market. Such graphics cards tend to come to Europe and the German market through indirect means, such as through AliExpress.
Xiang Dixian is also not the first manufacturer to want to offer graphics cards for the Chinese market. Companies like Innosilicon have also launched graphics cards to better position themselves: Graphics card from China wants to be a strong alternative for gamers to AMD and Nvidia – Will it work?
