MTT S80 is no match for Radeon iGPUs
The flagship MTT S380 GPU is 60% slower than Radeon 760M.
Moore Threads S80 & S30 GPU, Source: ComputerBase/VideoCardz
Chinese company Moore Threads surprised gamers with a healthy lineup of MTT GPU series. These are genuine desktop graphics cards that are equipped with cutting-edge technologies such as PCI Express 5.0 support, whereas neither AMD, NVIDIA nor Intel possess such a feature. The only issue with MTT GPUs is their performance, which is nowhere near competitive level.
Over the past year, the company has made great progress in driver optimizations. Their GPUs are now up to 100% faster in synthetic benchmarks and some gamers, but this is not necessarily reflected in all gaming tests. To verify the optimizations teased by Chinese media, ComputerBase took the S80 and just-launched S30 entry-level card for a test.
In a nutshell, the S80 falls short when compared to the Ryzen 5 8600G, featuring the Radeon 760M iGPU with RDNA3 graphics. A geometric mean across various titles reveals the S80’s lag, but there are exceptions, like DOTA2, where it takes the lead in framerate. It’s clear that MTT GPUs are geared towards the MMO game market in China, with a less emphasized focus on supporting AAA titles.
Moore Threads S80 & S30 GPU test, Source: ComputerBase
Performance is one problem, lack of support for the DirectX 12 API is a major concern. The vast majority of games already used by media outlets cannot even run on these cards. This is not even mentioning the power consumption of 200W compared to AMD Ryzen APU working easily at their advertised TDP.
To add salt to the wound, the newly released S30 GPU, which offers 1/4 of the S80 cores, comes with 1/4 of the performance. According to CB testing, this card is 50% slower than the Core i5-12500 CPU with integrated Xe graphics.
Even if next-gen MTT GPUs somehow double the performance, it will still be iGPU-level performance, hardly anyone should consider for gaming. However, in the case of Chinese GPUs, gaming may only be one of the reasons to grab these cards. The S80, for instance, equipped with 16GB VRAM or AV1 encoding.
Regardless, we look forward to what Moore Threads is bringing to the GPU market.
| Moore Threads MTT Gaming GPUs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz.com | MTT S80 | MTT S70 | MTT S50 | MTT S30 | MTT S10 |
| Picture |  | |  |  | |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming | Workstation | Business | Business |
| MUSA Cores | 4096 | 3584 | 2048 | 1024 | 1024 |
| GPU Clock | 1.8 GHZ | 1.6 GHz | 1.2 GHz | 1.3 GHz | 1.0 GHz |
| FP32 Compute | 14.4 TFLOPS | 11.2 TFLOPS | 5.0 TFLOPS | 2.6 TFLOPS | 2.0 TFLOPS |
| Mem. Capacity | 16GB GDDR6 | 7GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 4GB GDDR6 | 2GB GDDR6 |
| Mem. Bus | 256-bit | 224-bit | 256-bit | 128-bit | 64-bit |
| TDP | 255W | 220W | 75W | 40W | 30W |
| PCle interface | Gen5 x16 | Gen4 x16 | Gen4 x16 | Gen4 x8 | Gen4 x8 |
| Connectors | 3x DP 1.4a, 1x HDMI 2.1 | 3x DP1.4a, 1x HDMI 2.1 | 2x DP 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.0 | 1x HDMI, 1x VGA | 1x HDMI, 1x VGA |
| Dimensions | 285×112×49 mm | 285×112×49 mm | 264×126×25 mm | 14.4×6.70×2.5 mm | 14.4×6.70×2.5 mm |
Source: ComputerBase