China built a gaming GPU: Lisuan's LX 7G100 performs like an RTX 3060 but costs almost $500

Lisuan Technology’s retail LX 7G100 GPU is a meaningful step for China’s homegrown gaming hardware efforts.

It runs modern games more reliably than earlier Chinese GPUs and supports DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 3.0.

But real-world gaming performance is mostly around RTX 3060 class, with a price of about 3,300 RMB ($480), making it poor value versus Nvidia, AMD, and Intel cards.

The 12GB GDDR6 card still lacks hardware ray tracing, though Lisuan says that feature is planned for a future generation.