For almost two decades, AMD and NVIDIA have divided up the gaming graphics card market. This year Intel has entered, and also… the Chinese company Moore Treads.
NVIDIA’s RTX graphics cards already have a new rival. The gaming graphics card China Moore Treads MTT S80 It is the first in the world with a connector PCIe 5.0. According to its creators, it has a power equivalent to a RTX 3060Ti. And it will be sold all over the world.
The PC Gaming market has become one of the most coveted in the world. To the point that both Xbox and PlayStation launch their exclusive games on PC.
Until now, gaming graphics cards were a matter of two: AMD with its RX Radeonand NVIDIA with its RTX. This year Intel has timidly debuted, with its ARC cards. And by surprise, we must welcome (with limitations), the Chinese company moore treads.
First PCIe 5.0 graphics card with a handicap
His first gaming graphics card, the Moore Treads MTT S80, already marks a milestone: it is the first graphics card with a PCIe 5.0 connector. Something completely unnecessary, because if you compete with the RTX 3060Ti, you will never use the bandwidth it offers. Although perhaps it is a bet for the future.
As reported ITHomevia Tom’s Hardware, the new one MTB S80 It is sold on the JD.com store, which sells to everyone, and is specifically designed for gaming.
Use the Chunxiao GPUwhich has 4,096 stream processors, 128 tensor cores, 256 texture units, and 256 render outputs at 1.80 GHz. It is equipped with 16GB of GDDR6 memory with a data transfer rate of 14 GT/s. Its 256-bit data bus reaches 448 GB/s of bandwidth.
Its computing power is 14.4 TFLOPs, slightly below the RTX 3060 Ti (Review) which has 16.2 TFLOPs.
But one thing is its theoretical performance, or in mathematical operations per second, and quite another, your gaming performance. In fact current drivers only support a few 20 games, those who are interested in China. Namely, online multiplayer games: Call of Duty, Crossfire, Counter-Strike, Diablo 3, League of Legends, etc.
But the manufacturer moore treads ensures that it is working directly with the developers, to support more games. Best of all is, without a doubt, the price: it only costs 245 euros.
For now it is not a match for the new RTX 4000, with the new RTX 4090 (Review) leading the way. But we already know how fast Chinese companies evolve. The new one Moore Treads MTT S80 gaming graphics card with PCIe 5.0 ensures that it can compete with the RTX 3060Ti. Should AMD and NVIDIA be concerned?
