Today marks a big milestone for <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/china-attacks-the-gaming-sector-with-mtt-s80-the-first-pc-gaming-graphics-card/" title="China attacks the gaming sector with MTT S80, the first PC gaming graphics card”>Moore Threads as it supports modern graphics, which could mark a breakthrough for budget GPUs in China.
The Moore Threads MTT S80 graphics card now costs $167 in China, offering good value for money. However, this flagship GPU still struggles to compete with today’s GPUs from rivals such as AMD, NVIDIA and Intel.
The company has just released its first GPU driver that supports DirectX 12. Interestingly, even a year after its launch, the card did not support this API. This update now allows the card to run some benchmarks and modern games.
Moore Threads confirms that this supports 500 new games that already support DX12. However, you should remember that launching and optimizing are two different things.
On October 15, Moore Threads released a beta version of its DirectX 12 driver available for download. With this new release, MTT S80 and MTT S70 graphics card users can now experience DirectX 12 games on their home GPU. Meanwhile, Moore Threads launched an “Alpha Operation” in his “Mocha Players” community, inviting more players to test the DirectX 12 beta driver and provide feedback to update drivers to accelerate Currently there are more than 500 games on the market that support DirectX 12. Many famous games such as Elden Ring and Death Stranding run only on the DirectX 12 API Now, with the new beta driver, users can run these games on MTT S80 and MTT S70.
According to Loschzwerg, the owner of the MTT S80 GPU, the card scored 3,783 in 3DMark Time Spy and 3,452 in graphics, which is almost the same as the Radeon 890M, the latest integrated graphics introduced in the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU (which scored 3,491). ). Previously, the card could not pass this test. In Steel Nomad, the card scored 874 points, which is 52% faster than the 890M.
Additionally, DirectX 12 support appears to be limited to Feature Level 11_1. This means that the MTT S80 does not support DX12 Ultimate features such as Mesh Shaders, Variable Rate Shading, Sampler Feedback and others. This is progress, but still just baby steps.
