China’s Lisuan unveils homegrown “TrueGPU” card, claims RTX 4060-class performance

What happened

Lisuan Technology (砺算科技) yesterday opened public sales of its self‑developed “TrueGPU 天图” architecture Lisuan eXtreme series at the AWE2026 show. The consumer model LX 7G106 was presented as a “render+inference integrated GPU” built from a wholly proprietary instruction set and software stack — a claim that, if true, means the company designed its GPU architecture from the ground up rather than licensing common IP. Tom’s Hardware reportedly tested early samples and said performance is comparable to an NVIDIA RTX 4060; it has been reported that the family is produced on a 6nm G100 process.

Specs and ecosystem

Lisuan’s LX 7G106 is quoted with 12 GB GDDR6 memory, 192 texture units, 96 ROPs and roughly 24 TFLOPS FP32 throughput. The card reportedly supports mainstream graphics APIs (OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, DirectX 12, WHQL) and engines (Unity, Unreal), and the firm says it has validated 100+ games and dozens of professional applications — from Genshin Impact and Cyberpunk 2077 to AutoCAD, Blender and SolidWorks. The company also touts local AI deployment for models such as Qwen3, Deepseek and OpenClaw and a proprietary NRSS dynamic rendering optimizer it compares to NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR. Independent verification of those claims is still pending.

Why it matters — and what’s next

This product launch is significant in Beijing’s broader push for semiconductor self‑reliance amid US export controls and growing strategic scrutiny of AI chips. Lisuan’s claims of a fully self‑developed stack and broad compatibility with domestic CPUs (Kunpeng, Feiteng, Loongson and others) feed directly into that policy context. Availability is immediate in China: Lisuan says the consumer cards will first be sold via JD.com during the 618 shopping festival, while professional models began accepting enterprise orders on March 17. But can a relatively young company scale software maturity, driver support and production volume to challenge entrenched players like NVIDIA and AMD? That, more than a headline benchmark, will decide how far this domestic GPU effort goes.