Chinese GPU designer Moore Threads has developed the MTT X300, a new graphics card suitable for workstations. Under the company’s professional vision accelerator label, the X300 supports x86, Arm and LoongArch CPUs. Moore Threads says the GPU will run on Windows, Ubuntu, and Chinese operating systems such as Fangde and Tongxin.
In terms of hardware, the X300 is a PCIe 5.0 card with 4,096 second-generation MUSA cores, 16GB GDDR6 memory, and a 256-bit wide memory bus capable of reaching 448 GB/s bandwidth. X300 also has 8K video output, AV1 codec, and supports common graphics APIs such as OpenGL, DirectX, and Vulkan.
However, this is nothing new to Moore’s threads, as these specifications are the same as those of Moore’s threads. MTT S80launched more than two years ago. The official spec sheets for both cards are nearly identical, with the only difference being that Moore Threads doesn’t specify the X300’s clock speed. Both cards are the same size, which means they likely share the same cooler.
While there seems to be no hardware difference between the X300 and S80, the drivers may be different. It’s fairly standard for Nvidia and AMD to use the same hardware on gaming and workstation GPUs (although not to this extent yet), but only owners of workstation cards have access to professional-grade drivers. These drivers, such as Nvidia’s Studio drivers, are specifically optimized for non-gaming applications such as AutoCAD.
Moore Threads doesn’t explicitly state that the X300 has workstation-optimized drivers, but it does advertise that the card supports applications such as Unreal Engine, Unity, and AutoCAD. Unfortunately, these drivers are not yet available on Moore Threads’ website, so we have no way of knowing. At least, without any special drivers, the X300 would be a pointless product, because otherwise it would be exactly the same as the S80.
How well the X300 will perform in workstation workloads is an open question. In games, even Ryzen 5 8600G easily surpasses S80 with integrated graphics cardso the X300’s raw horsepower may not be that promising. It does have a lot of reasonably fast memory, though, which could be a big selling point.
Moore Threads is also working hard to fully optimize its GPU driver. Just in October, it released a new driver, Performance improved by 30% to 40% in two games. These types of driver updates are very typical for Moore threads, suggesting that a lot of performance may be retained on the desktop, which may be the case for professional applications.