Chinese vendor showcases first mass-produced Imagination DXD GPU with ray tracing — sports modern features like super resolution, too

A Chinese vendor has shown what it calls the only mass-produced Imagination DXD-architecture graphics card currently on the market. The unveiling took place at the recent ICCAD 2025 in Chengdu.

In a statement published on its website, Xiang Di Xian said the new card more than doubles the overall rendering performance of its predecessor, and ran a series of large-scale 3D graphics workloads throughout the event. The company also demonstrated digital-twin applications and next-generation techniques such as ray tracing and super-resolution.

This is one of the first public demonstrations of Imagination’s DXD architecture in production hardware. DXD is the company’s high-performance GPU IP aimed at desktops and cloud-gaming infrastructure. It introduces native DirectX support to Imagination’s roadmap and offers Feature Level 11_0 compliance, Vulkan, and OpenGL support, and a decentralized multicore design.

Imagination advertises 2.3 TFLOPS and 72 GTexel/s per core, along with a reported 2.25x uplift in per-core performance over its BXT family. Its multicore layout is intended to scale into higher-end products aimed at PCs, workstations, and cloud-gaming deployments.

While the company did not publish specifications for the GPU card and did not assign a model name in its announcement, it emphasized that the design is already in mass production. The ability to run complex 3D visualization workloads smoothly formed the core of its demonstration.

Imagination’s public documentation describes DXD as a raster-first architecture, while the closely related DXT mobile IP integrates hardware ray tracing. Xiang Di Xian highlighted ray tracing in its written announcement, but the company has not yet clarified whether it is using a customized configuration of DXD, integrating additional blocks, or adopting an extended version of the IP tailored for its market.

Although the announcement did not provide numerical performance data beyond the “more than double” claim, the focus on digital-twin workloads and 3D simulation aligns with Imagination’s own positioning. DXD includes virtualization features such as the HyperLane multi-context system, which allows multiple isolated workloads to run on a single GPU.

With no independent testing or shipping products outside China, many questions remain about software support and real-world performance. Its appearance at ICCAD, however, marks the first time a DXD-based graphics card has been publicly demonstrated, setting the stage for a clearer look once further details emerge.

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