China is designing more and more hardware in their homeland. Moore Threads announced a new graphics card for gamers, the MTT S80, which is the first in the world to support PCIe 5.0. This is in addition to the MTT S3000, a GPU for gamers. AI and the speeding up of the data centre (Artificial Intelligence).
The MTT S80 GPU offers 14.4 TFLOPs, between a GeForce RTX 3060 and an RTX 3060 Ti in terms of speed. This chip has 4096 cores that run at 1.8 GHz and are based on the company's MUSA (MT Unified System Architecture) architecture. The card has 448 GB/s of bandwidth and 16 GB of GDDR6 memory with a 256-bit interface.
In the MTT S series, this is the second GPU. The S60 was the first, and it came out earlier this year. A much simpler graphics card with a performance of 6 TFLOPs, which is less than half of what the new GPU can do. During the presentation of the new cards, the company said that compared to the first generation of GPUs, the new cards are 3.4 times faster in DirectX and 5 times faster in OpenGL. This increase is also seen in how fast videos can be encoded (4 times faster) and decoded (2 times faster).
Moore Thread's reference model for the S80 has three fans, a big heatsink made of aluminium, and will not take up more than two slots. The card has the same three DP 1.4a connections and one HDMI 2.1 connection as the RTX 4090. The MTT S3000, a card for data centres, has the same number of cores as the gaming card (4096), but it runs at 1.9 GHz and has 32 GB of video memory. This model has two connections for DisplayPort 1.4a.
The difference between the S3000 GPU and its predecessor, the S2000, is not as big as what happened in gaming. The new data centre GPU has 3.2 TFLOPs more processing power, but the rest of its specs are the same.
Moore Threads was started last year, and its first dedicated GPU cards, the S60 and S2000, came out early this year. The MTT S80 gaming GPU will be available on November 11, but the price is still unknown.
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