Lisuan LX 7G100 Lands Near RX 580 in New Gaming Test

A new independent test of Lisuan Technology’s LX 7G100 paints a much less flattering picture than the card’s theoretical specifications suggest. Results from German outlet PC Games Hardware, summarized by Tom’s Hardware on September 24, place the Chinese 12GB GPU only slightly ahead of AMD’s Radeon RX 580 in the publication’s 1080p raster performance index.

In the reported 14-game index, the LX 7G100 scored 11.1 points versus 10.6 for the RX 580. The GeForce RTX 2060 reached 17.2, the Radeon RX 6600 reached 20.0, and the GeForce RTX 4060 reached 25.2. That makes the result important less as another synthetic score and more as evidence of how much usable game performance Lisuan is currently extracting from its first consumer gaming architecture.

The LX 7G100 uses Lisuan’s TrueGPU architecture and carries 12GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit interface. Tom’s Hardware reports a peak FP32 figure of 24.5 TFLOPS and memory bandwidth up to 432 GB/s. Those headline numbers sit in territory associated with substantially faster established GPUs, yet the gaming index remains far below them.

That mismatch is a useful reminder that shader throughput and memory bandwidth do not translate mechanically into frame rates. Game performance depends on architectural efficiency, compiler quality, API implementation, shader scheduling, cache behavior and years of per-game driver work. For a new GPU vendor, the software stack can be as decisive as the silicon itself.

The result is not simply “the card cannot run games.” Earlier independent testing already showed the LX 7G100 running modern DirectX titles, and Lisuan achieved Microsoft WHQL certification for its Windows driver. Tom’s Hardware notes that the company has issued three WHQL-certified driver updates in roughly four months.

The newer test also shows why compatibility and performance need to be judged separately. A GPU can launch a broad range of games reliably while still leaving substantial performance on the table. Conversely, the gap cannot safely be attributed entirely to drivers: without architectural profiling or a mature-driver retest, there is no evidence for how much of the deficit software updates can recover.

As a retail gaming product, the current performance makes the LX 7G100 difficult to compare favorably with mainstream AMD, Intel and NVIDIA cards on frame rate alone. But the more consequential part of the story is that a new GPU architecture has reached retail hardware, modern DirectX gaming and WHQL-certified Windows drivers at all.

The next meaningful checkpoint is therefore not another theoretical benchmark. It is whether later drivers materially raise the same card’s performance and compatibility in repeatable game tests. If that happens, it would quantify how much of today’s gap belongs to an immature software stack; if results remain near the RX 580 class, the limitation is more likely to be deeper than driver maturity alone.