Thursday, March 31st 2022
Moore Threads Unveils MTT S60 & MTT S2000 Graphics Cards with DirectX Support
Chinese company Moore Threads has unveiled their MTT GPU series just 18 months after the company's establishment in 2020. The MT Unified System Architecture (MUSA) architecture is the first for any Chinese company to be developed fully domestically and includes support for DirectX, OpenCL, OpenGL, Vulkan, and CUDA. The company announced the MTT S60 and MTT S2000 single slot desktop graphics cards for gaming and server applications at a recent event. The MTT S60 is manufactured on a 12 nm node and features 2,048 MUSA cores paired with 8 GB of LPGDDR4X memory offering 6 TFLOPs of performance. The MTT S2000 is also manufactured on a 12 nm node and doubles the number of MUSA cores to 4096 paired with 32 GB of undisclosed video memory allowing it to reach 12 TFLOPs.
Moore Threads joins Intel in supporting AV1 encoding on a consumer GPU with MUSA cards featuring H.264, H.265, and AV1 encoding support in addition to H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, and VP9 decoding. The company is also developing a physics engine dubbed Alphacore which is said to work with existing tools such as Unity, Unreal Engine, and Houdini to accelerate physics performance by 5 to 10 times. The only gaming performance shown was a simple demonstration of the MTT S60 running League of Legends at 1080p without any frame rate details.
Sources:
ITHome, MyDrivers
Moore Threads joins Intel in supporting AV1 encoding on a consumer GPU with MUSA cards featuring H.264, H.265, and AV1 encoding support in addition to H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, and VP9 decoding. The company is also developing a physics engine dubbed Alphacore which is said to work with existing tools such as Unity, Unreal Engine, and Houdini to accelerate physics performance by 5 to 10 times. The only gaming performance shown was a simple demonstration of the MTT S60 running League of Legends at 1080p without any frame rate details.
47 Comments on Moore Threads Unveils MTT S60 & MTT S2000 Graphics Cards with DirectX Support
Still, this seems impressive on paper for a first effort - though the lack of power and performance numbers beyond TFLOPS is rather worrying. Given that this is 12nm I'm not expecting it to be even remotely competitive with current architectures, but that doesn't make it any less impressive - assuming it works, of course.
I can see the meme coming soon:
Intel/Nvidia/AMD: "We're cutting supplies to Russia and China. Let's see them descend back to the Middle Ages."
China/Russia: "Hold my beer."
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It seems that we have 1465-1500MHz with 128 ROPs for S60 (192GPixel/s) paired with 8GB LPGDDR4X but I don't know the memory bus & frequency.
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So i wont hold my breath about half of these claims being true.