Moore Threads MTT S80 with 16GB VRAM drops to $178 in China

Just $178 for 16GB VRAM

The only PCIe Gen5 gaming graphics card on the market.

We definitely do not recommend buying this graphics card, even at the new price. The MTT GPU is far from a perfect modern gaming card. It uses a lot of power and offers entry-level performance for gaming. The new promotional price is temporary, and while it’s better than when the card first came out, it still has the same issues we described earlier.

The first generation of Moore Threads GPUs, namely the MTT S80 and MTT S70, are interesting from an architectural standpoint. The company has made massive progress in GPU development, resulting in significant, often triple-digit performance updates over time.

The MTT S80 is the flagship card based on the MUSA architecture, featuring up to 4096 cores, a 1.8 GHz clock, and a total FP32 throughput of 14.4 TFLOPs. The last GPU driver introduces support for 21 new games, which sounds impressive, but the full count of fully supported games now stands at just 42, that’s a major downside of this graphics card for sure.

MTT S80 and S70, Source: MTT

The interesting news is that the card is now listed at 1299 RMB, which is approximately $178. This is not even the lowest price it has ever been listed at ($164), but it is significantly cheaper than at launch (approximately $350).

MTT S80 and S70, Source: MTT

The only reason anyone might consider this card is its large 16GB GDDR6 VRAM and AV1 decoding capability. It is also technically the only gaming GPU on the market that supports the PCIe Gen5 x16 interface, a feature not even available with the Radeon RX 7000 and GeForce RTX 40 series. Unfortunately, this does not yield any performance advantages in this case.

Moore Threads MTT Gaming GPUs
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Purpose Gaming GamingWorkstationBusinessBusiness
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 x16Gen4 x16Gen4 x8Gen4 x8
Connectors 3x DP 1.4a, 1x HDMI 2.1 3x DP1.4a, 1x HDMI 2.12x DP 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.01x HDMI, 1x VGA1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Dimensions 285×112×49 mm 285×112×49 mm264×126×25 mm14.4×6.70×2.5 mm14.4×6.70×2.5 mm

Source: MTT (JD) via ITHome