Lisuan Technology officially unveiled today, March 12 its new consumer gaming graphics card, the Extreme LX 7G106, marking what the company is calling its most complete product launch to date. Unlike previous announcements that were heavy on promises and light on details, this time Lisuan came with a retail date, a pre-order window, and a game compatibility list that nobody saw coming from a Chinese GPU maker.
Pre-orders open March 17, and the card hits shelves on June 18, 2026, initially available through JD.com in China. The company has also stated its intention to sell globally at some point, though no timeline has been confirmed for markets outside China.
Lisuan Technology was founded in 2021 in Shanghai by three former employees of S3 Graphics, the GPU company that had a strong run in the 1990s. Backed by Chinese private and state investment, the company spent the last few years building a GPU architecture from scratch, no licensing, no borrowed instruction sets. The result is the G100 chip, which powers both the Extreme LX 7G106 and the professional-grade 7G105.
A mid-range card built on a fully homegrown architecture
The 7G106 is manufactured on TSMC’s 6nm N6 process and runs on Lisuan’s in-house TrueGPU architecture, which the company claims was developed entirely from the ground up, including the instruction set, compute core, and software stack. The card comes with 12GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, 192 TMUs, 96 ROPs, and an FP32 throughput of up to 24 TFLOP/s. It connects via PCIe 4.0 x16 and draws power through a single 8-pin connector, suggesting a TDP of around 225W.
For display output, the card offers four DisplayPort 1.4 ports with DSC 1.2b compression. There is no HDMI, Lisuan appears to have skipped it to avoid the licensing costs charged by the HDMI Consortium. The card occupies three slots and is cooled by three fans, with a Founder’s Edition variant also in the mix.
The TrueGPU architecture incorporates a matrix memory layout designed to boost memory efficiency by 40%, dynamic load balancing across cores, and NRSS, a proprietary upscaling system Lisuan is positioning as its answer to Nvidia’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR. On the API side, the card supports DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 3.0. Ray tracing is not supported.
The companion professional card, the 7G105, uses the same G100 chip but steps up to 24GB of GDDR6 with ECC support, targeting AI inference, cloud rendering, and enterprise virtualization workloads.
AAA game support right out of the box
This is the part that separates the Extreme LX from every Chinese GPU that came before it. Lisuan is claiming out-of-the-box support for a list of titles that includes Cyberpunk 2077, Black Myth: Wukong, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Baldur’s Gate 3, and the Horizon series, all without the driver nightmares that plagued earlier domestic offerings.
During previous demos, the 7G106 ran Black Myth: Wukong and Wuchang: Fallen Feathers above 70 FPS at 4K High settings. Shadow of the Tomb Raider topped 80 FPS at 1080p on highest quality. The compatibility is built on solid API support, DirectX 12 and Vulkan 1.3 cover the vast majority of modern titles on Steam, and Lisuan’s driver work has clearly advanced significantly compared to earlier generations of Chinese discrete GPUs.
In synthetic benchmarks, the 7G106 scored 26,800 points in 3DMark Fire Strike, placing it just below the RTX 4060’s 28,500. In Geekbench 6 OpenCL, it scored 111,290 points, edging past the RTX 4060 by roughly 10%. The card entered mass production on September 15, 2025, on TSMC’s 6nm process, with the first enterprise shipments going out in late December.
China’s most credible GPU challenge yet
The context here matters. US export restrictions have blocked Chinese consumers and businesses from accessing Nvidia’s most advanced chips for years, pushing significant investment into domestic alternatives. Previous attempts, including early offerings from Moore Threads and Zhaoxin’s integrated solutions, fell short of mainstream gaming viability. Lisuan is the most serious answer to that gap so far.
Beyond gaming, Lisuan has been quietly making moves in other directions. In late 2025, the company demonstrated the 7G106 running 3DMark on a Windows 11 ARM system powered by a Chinese ARM-based CPU, making it one of the first discrete GPUs with an ARM-compatible 3D driver for Windows. That puts Lisuan ahead of Nvidia, AMD, and Intel on that specific front, which is not something anyone expected from a five-year-old Chinese startup.
Pricing for the Extreme LX 7G106 has not been confirmed yet, but with pre-orders starting in less than a week, that information should surface very soon. What is clear is that Lisuan is no longer just showing prototype hardware at trade events, it has a product, a launch date, and a game library to back it up.
What do you think, is a Chinese GPU finally ready to compete, or does Lisuan still have a long road ahead? Let us know in the comments!