Due to the trade war that started between China and the US, it was the tech industry of mainland china that suffered the most brutal of consequences. However, being blocklisted from using US tech only led china to strive further into developing its powerful tech.
According to sources, China’s domestically produced GPUs will soon be released with a performance level equivalent to some high-end AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, which were released way back in 2017. Reports indicate that a China-based GPU manufacturer from the Changsha region is gearing up for its first high-end GPU tape in Q3 2021.
Jingjia Micro also reported that its JM9 series GPU performance is looking good, and the company expects the first tape out of their chip in the third quarter of 2021. According to sources, the chip manufacturer company will be producing two GPUs, the JM9231 and the JM9271.
It’s stated that both of these GPUs will target different performance tiers, with the JM9231 being compared to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 & the JM9271 stated to offer performance on par with the GeForce GTX 1080 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64. This is some pretty big talk coming from the manufacturer; however, if this indeed turned out to be true, we could see a new GPU superpower rising in the east.
Jingjia Micro JM9271 GPUs – Performance Target: NVIDIA GTX 1080 & AMD RX Vega 64
The Jingjia Micro JM9271 GPU is the flagship chip with a peak compute power of around 8.0 TFLOPs. It’s pretty close to NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1080 with has 8.9 TFLOPs. Its other specifications include support for PCIe 4.0 x16 interface and up to 16 GB of HBM memory that offers up to 512 GB/s of bandwidth.
The GPU also has a pixel fill rate of 128 GPixels/s which is higher than the 111 GPixels/s of the GeForce GTX 1080, and it sports a massive clock speed of around 1800 MHz. its TDP is reported to be around 200W which means that AMD & NVIDIA will have the upper hand due to better process nodes.
Whether the GPUs of Jingjia Micro may be able to match you to Nvidia or AMD is yet to be seen; however, since China is the world’s biggest tech market producing the GPUs internally means that the localized prices of the graphics cards will be relatively low. For more details, stay tuned.
