Moore Threads's upcoming MTT S90 Gaming & S4000 Data Center GPUs have been spotted which might launch in the coming year for China's domestic users.
Moore Threads Doesn't Look to Stop Continuing GPU Developments For China's Domestic Market As Next-Gen MTT S90 & S4000 GPUs Spotted
Last year, Moore Threads introduced its MTT S80 and MTT S70 GPUs which were the world's first PCIe Gen5 native graphics cards and offered some really high-end specifications (at least on paper) with up to 22 Billion transistors, 4096 cores, and 16 GB GDDR6 memory. These GPUs were aimed at the Chinese domestic market and people outside the APAC market were also able to find the GPUs.
However, as time passed and the first benchmarks came in, the graphics cards looked very under-whelming with poor optimization, high power draw, and the general lack of support in various apps which include games, content creation, rendering, and AI workloads. The company only started to fix the broken nature of its MTT client GPUs several months later but overall, those updates still do not deliver the same level of performance or efficiency as modern-day graphics cards. Even NVIDIA and AMD entry-level cards from several years back look much better than these high-end Moore Threads GPUs.
Moore Threads Technology is preparing a new generation of products. New Dev-IDs starting 03xx have been listed:
MTT S4000 (0322)
S90 (0301)
S90 Eng. (0300)Old 02xx:
MTT S80 (0201)
S70 (0202)
S3000 (0222)PowerVR C-Series related???https://t.co/4axFs8YkXp#moorethreads #mtt pic.twitter.com/PrHCzhORdx
— Löschzwerg (@Loeschzwerg_3DC) October 18, 2023
Based on a new post by @Loeschzwerg_3DC, it looks like Moore Threads has already started to work on its next-gen GPUs. The info comes from "Device Hunt", which specializes in finding the respective Device IDs for either current or various hardware components.
The data reveals that Moore Threads is reportedly planning to launch the MTT S90, the successor of the MTT S80 gaming GPU & the MTT S4000, which is targeted towards the server industry (replacing the S3000). The new GPUs have the "0301" and "0323" respective Device IDs, which validates the fact that these are indeed new graphics cards planned by the Chinese manufacturer.
This is the first time we have seen the Moore Threads MTT S90 & S4000 GPU models surface, hence details regarding specifications & potential pricing are yet to be disclosed. However, based on what we have seen with Moore Threads up till now, the new products would certainly not hold up against current NVIDIA/AMD offerings. Moore Threads software resources are at a much better point compared to what they were a year ago but it would've been wise if the company had focused on fine-tuning its software a bit more than going to do a whole new generation of GPUs which might end up being plagued by the same issue.
Intel was also in a similar state with its Arc Alchemist graphics card and as a new entrant, the GPU maker worked really hard and now Arc GPUs are positioned very well against the latest NVIDIA & AMD offerings. Sure Moore Threads doesn't have the funding or engineering expertise as big as Intel but it's better to release something in a fixed state than be broken and unusable at launch.
Things have also been tough for the Chinese GPU industry as a whole and with the inclusion of Moore Threads in the U.S. Entity List, they are restricted from accessing modern technology, which will hinder the innovation process. Since the company doesn't have access to leading foundries and equipment, getting even close to Team Green and Red isn't a choice for them either way. The only way Moore Threads can make an impact is by grasping the attention of Chinese consumers, since "homegrown" solutions are always hyped up in the industry (despite their inferior performance), similar to what we saw with Huawei's Kirin 9000S.
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