Anyone with a computer knows that a graphics card is indispensable in a computer.
Of course, there are independent graphics cards, and there are also integrated, if you are not pursuing graphics performance, you don't have to have a separate external independent display, you can use the GPU concentrated in Intel and AMD's CPUs.
If you are looking for high graphics performance and play games regularly, you need a separate external display, mainly Nvida or AMD (ATI).
In fact, this is just one use of GPU, that is, graphics rendering, high-end GPU graphics cards, but also have AI acceleration functions, such as the recent popularity of AI large models, which require a large number of GPU graphics cards, such as NVIDIA's H100, H200, etc.
In the field of GPU, China is too far behind, almost 100% of which was imported in the early years, and all of them were monopolized by American manufacturers.
But in recent years, domestic GPU manufacturers have made continuous efforts and made some breakthroughs, especially in rendering GPUs, many manufacturers have launched domestic independent graphics cards, replacing AMD and NVIDIA, and in terms of integrated GPUs, Loongson and Zhaoxin's CPUs have also begun to be integrated.
In terms of AI acceleration cards, DCUs such as Huawei Ascend and Haiguang DCUs have also replaced NVIDIA's GPUs.
Recently, there has been a breakthrough in domestic GPU, Wuhan Lingjiu Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Lingjiu Micro") announced that its self-designed second-generation graphics processing unit (GPU) GP201 has been successfully mass-produced and listed.
The GPU has a core frequency of 1200MHz, supports 32GB of video memory, has a data transfer speed of 4266Mbps, and has a single-precision floating-point hashrate of 1.2 Tflops.
The GPU supports a PCIe 3.0 x 16 bus interface and can be used in a wide range of computers that support this interface. What's more, it supports all domestic processors such as Loongson, Feiteng, Shenwei, Haiguang and Kunpeng, as well as various domestic operating systems such as UOS and Kirin, and drivers have been developed.
However, it is worth mentioning that the performance of this GPU is still average, and the overall performance is only equivalent to the E8860 embedded graphics card launched by AMD in 2014.
In other words, in terms of performance, AMD may be about 10 years behind.
But what everyone should be clear about is that Ling Jiuwei was only established in 2021, and in only 3 years, it has launched five graphics card products in the form of full height, half height, MXM, etc., it can be said that it has taken the road that AMD has taken for decades in 3 years, which is already a huge success, at this rate, in a few years, maybe it will catch up with AMD, what do you think?