Innosilicon Fenghua No.2 GPU Launching August 3

China’s Innosilicon continues to strive forward in its attempts to provide the nation with a “domestic desktop GPU” that it can be proud of. The firm launched the Fenghua No.1 last November, but we're still learning about the first Innosilicon branded GPU, and it's nowhere to be seen on our list of the best graphics cards. The November desktop GPU still appears to be in stealth mode, but such practicalities aren’t stopping the firm’s PR machine, as it intends to launch Fenghua No.2 on August 3, reports MyDrivers.

Fenghua No.1 specifications (Image credit: Innosilicon / MyDrivers)

One area where Innosilicon is definitely excelling, compared to western graphics technology companies, is in preventing any Chinese leaks of performance and benchmarks and so on from forums, websites, and social media video platforms. It is frustrating to see these launches and claims, with no hardware getting into third party tester hands for a thorough assessment.

We can only hope the presentation next Wednesday will contain some substantial information and benchmarks worthy of reporting. We would love to get some of these graphics cards so that we can add them to our GPU benchmarks hierarchy. Given the features and specs, we can only guess that real-world performance perhaps doesn't match up with the claims.

Mark Tyson
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  • evdjj3j
    It's good to see Intel will have someone to compete with in terms of GPU performance.
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  • Pollopesca
    Given how long it’s going to take Intel to get their GPU drivers up to snuff for the plethora of games out there, I don’t imagine things will be any easier for Innosilicon. Curious to see how it performs IRL.
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