Zhihui Micro Develops 14nm IDM929 GPU For Domestic Chinese Market, Aiming For GTX 1650 Performance
Chinese GPU maker, Zhihui Microelectronics, has revealed its first GPU that is reported to perform equal to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650.
The new IDM929 GPU utilizes the company's proprietary IDMV architecture, instruction set, and compiler. The new IDM929 has a compute performance of 2.5 TFLOPS, a texture fill rate of 76.8 GTexel/s, and a pixel fill rate of 19.2 GPixels/s.
The GPU clock frequency only reaches 1.2 GHz, which is unusual for a 14nm CMOS process-based product, but the company assures that this new chip's performance is eight times higher than its initial design. The new GPU chip is created on the 14nm process technology. It is speculated that the new chip is manufactured by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC).
The general-purpose GPU taped out this time — IDM929 has three major advantages: high computing power, high versatility , and high energy efficiency. The product supports 4K ultra-high-definition display , 4 independent display outputs, HDMI, VGA and DVI interfaces, and hardware codes in H264 , MPEG2, MPEG4, VC-1, DivX and VP6 formats . At present, IDM929 has completed internal tests with a variety of domestic CPUs and domestic operating systems , and will meet the application requirements of desktop office, graphics workstation, geographic information system and high-performance computing .
There is not much information from Zhihui Microelectronics about the new IDM929 GPU. Still, the compute performance is anticipated to be similar to the GTX 1650 from 2019 which offered around 3.0 TFLOPs of compute power while using the TSMC 12nm process node.
The press release said that Hangzhou Guoxin Technology is the leading investment company for Zhihui Microelectronics, which develops SoCs
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