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About this time last year, Moore Thread MTT S80 graphics card was officially released. In the following year, the official driver adaptation and update of this graphics card was very active. After 9 major driver updates, from only supporting DX9 to supporting and compatible with more DX11 games, from playing old online games to 3A, the game support list is also expanding. Now that it is about to be the first anniversary of the launch of Moore Thread MTT S80, today we will take a look at the growth of this card.

This time, we still use the Z790 platform for testing. The 13th generation Core i7-13700K processor is selected, and the driver is the official v230.40.0.2 community driver released in October, which simulates the real use environment as close as possible. The specific configuration is shown in the following figure.

Before the design test, let's go through the appearance of this card briefly. The body size of the Moore thread MTT S80 is small compared to the current mainstream graphics card size. The shell is made of aluminum alloy die-casting + CNC metal body with silver-gray color design and online appearance. The fan is designed as a symmetrical distribution of two large and one small, with streamlined slots and baffles on both sides for a stronger sense of hierarchy.

The large fan is 8cm, the small fan is 7cm, and the surface of the fan is treated with high light surface. The small fan has its own RGB lighting effect, which makes it look better when it is turned on. These three groups of fans all support intelligent speed regulation, which can not only ensure the stable operation of the GPU, but also provide a quiet experience.

The backplane design is relatively simple, all visual elements are composed of triangles, gray backplane + low saturation grayish blue, with a kind of advanced feeling of Morandi color system. Visual symmetry and harmony, even the exposed screw hole position is as uniform as possible, quite fastidious.

The ventilation opening on the right also glows after lighting, adding a bit of mystery to it.

The side of the graphics card is still symmetrically designed, and the English full name Logo with Moore thread is printed in the middle. The dense internal heat dissipation fin of MTT S80 can be seen at the symmetrical heat dissipation opening, and four 6mm heat pipes are used to run through the whole heat sink to help transfer heat from the GPU chip and video memory to the heat dissipation fin as soon as possible.

After the machine is lit, the small fan in the middle will turn on the orange halo light, which forms a sharp contrast with the big fan which is completely blackened on both sides, interpreting its own enthusiasm and publicity.

The power interface is placed on the rear side of the fuselage and uses a server specification 8Pin interface, so there is also a double PCIe 8Pin to CPU 8Pin cable in the package. compared with the power supply interface of the common graphics card on the north side, the rear power supply interface can avoid the conflict between the cable and the side plate of the chassis during the conventional horizontal installation of the graphics card and reduce the hidden danger caused by the bending of the power supply line. Although this design is equivalent to a slight "increase" in the length of the graphics card, it does help to optimize the wiring of power supply and improve the aesthetics of installation.

In terms of output interface, the Moore thread MTT S80 graphics card uses the 3*DP1.4a interface and 1*HDMI2.1 interface that are currently equipped with high-end graphics cards, which can support video output with a resolution of up to 8K. It is worth mentioning that Moore thread MTT S80 is the only graphics card on the market that supports PCIe5.0 x16 interface, but considering the downward compatibility of PCIe protocol, MTT S80 is not compatible with the mainstream motherboard on the market, and the performance of S80 will not be significantly affected by the mainstream PCIe Gen4 motherboard.

Architecture Analysis Moore Thread MTT S80 graphics card is equipped with a full-function GPU chip "Chunxiao" based on MUSA architecture, and its four built-in computing engines establish a full-function graphics card positioning, which can simultaneously support graphics and image rendering, 8K video codec, AI training and reasoning, physical simulation and other functions. This also means that the MTT S80 can not only run games and rendering, but also take into account AI computing, is a full-featured general-purpose GPU.

In terms of core parameters, Moore thread MTT S80 is based on TSMC 7nm process, with 4096 MUSA cores, main frequency 1.8GHz, 16GB GDDR6 video memory, video memory bit width 256bit, internal integration of 22 billion transistors, built-in MUSA architecture general computing core and tensor computing core, can support FP32, FP16 and INT8 calculation accuracy. ‎

Through the disassembly, we can see that the internal workmanship is very regular, the display memory is 8 Samsung GDDR6 flash memory, each 2GB, together constitute the large display memory of 16GB.

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The core code is SD102AA-500, and the GPU chip Chunxiao based on Moore thread is built.

We also tested the performance of Moore thread MTT S80 through Master Lu. The measured score of its graphics card was 198, which was 130% higher than that of the 221.31 driver version in May, and nearly 14.5% higher than that of 173000 of GTX1650 graphics cards. In the 3D test part of Master Lu's graphics card, the average number of frames also increased from 23 frames driven in May to 46 frames, directly doubling the number of frames, while the average frame of GTX1650 3D test was 33 frames. As a result, we can get a general idea that the fully optimized 3D graphics rendering performance of Moore thread MTT S80 should be better than that of GTX1650.

In November last year, with the successful launch of MTT S80, Moore Thread became the first GPU company in China to support Windows environment and DirectX graphical interface. In June this year, Moore Thread officially announced that it supports DirectX 11. With a steady and strong pace of progress, 9 important driver versions have been updated, which has greatly improved the graphics performance of MTT S80. Some games have been close to or even surpassed GTX1650. As for the specific performance, we will immediately bring you the game test.

Moore Thread's official website has specially set up a page of the Mocha Game Center, which lists the games that have been adapted so far. Through this list, we can also see that the list covers many classic or popular online games. There are also many high-quality independent games. The number of 3A games is not large. At present, it is mainly based on compatibility optimization.

Before testing, the first step is to install the official Moore thread driver. This test uses the October community version of the driver v230.40.0.2. Judging from the pace of the iteration of the Moore thread driver, the community version of the driver is usually released in the official version first. The purpose is to let graphics card players experience the new features and new supported games of the driver for the first time. In the last version released in September, the community version of the driver 230.40.0.1 MTT S80 added support for OpenGL API under the Window system.

By the way, the performance monitoring tool is provided in Moore Thread's official driver, and the items shown are very detailed, so some of the following games will use this monitoring tool to view the number of frames and other information. As for why part, let's move on. In the game test, the vast majority of games will be tested with 1080p and 2K resolution, and special examples will be explained separately.

The first game we chose "original God", in June this year, Moore Thread officially released the version number v222.31.0.1 DX11 driver, supporting "original God", "fearless contract", "Destiny Ark", "Dyson Ball Plan", "Island crisis 3" and other five DX11 games, and the hottest of these five games is undoubtedly "original God". After entering the game, set the rendering accuracy to 0.8x, the rest of the scene details are all low, only enable Bloom for special effects, select FSR2 for anti-aliasing, and turn off vertical synchronization.

At this time, the number of frames in the field battle can be maintained at about 60 frames, there is no obvious stutter or sticking problem during the game, and the game experience is comfortable. When the original god was first supported in June, the same setting was only about 50 frames. If adjusted to high picture quality, the number of frames can also reach more than 45 frames.

In the Liyuegang map with complex lighting environment, the average number of frames is about 55 frames. It needs to be noted that the fluctuation of the frame number in the intention is obviously caused by the fact that the monitoring software can not get the frame rate temporarily during the full screen screenshot. Only the part of the wave crest is basically a straight line. Although it can not be said that 1080p fully effective play with the original spirit, but after properly reducing the image quality, the actual experience has been more perfect.

Next is "League of Legends", this game does not eat configuration, let's mainly take a look at today's degree of optimization. At present, the Moore thread MTT S80 has been able to maintain the number of alignment frames of 300-350 frames under the low image quality setting of 1080p.

Under the high quality setting of 2K resolution, the number of frames can be maintained at about 200-230 frames. This set of results is consistent with our performance when we tested the Moore thread host in June, indicating that it is not difficult for a Tencent game like League of Legends. However, taking the time back to May, before updating the June community version of the driver, its 1080p and 2K scores were only 145 frames and 135 frames, with a performance improvement of 106% and more than 50%.

So let's add some difficulty to "CS2". We all know that the performance requirements of this game have greatly increased after a comprehensive upgrade, and the number of frames of the N card next door has been halved directly. When we tested CS:GO in June, its 1080p all-low frame number was 200. how will it perform this time? After entering the game, I did not set it to all low, but chose the medium picture quality according to the recommended configuration, which is most in line with the real game scene of novice users.

After entering the game, I soon felt something was wrong. Although the average number of frames was more than 50 frames, and the running and shooting were all very smooth, once I met the enemy, the picture suddenly became very stuttered at the moment they opened fire on me, and I couldn't line up with the enemy at all. I can't afford to fall to the ground when I come to my senses. This made me very disappointed. Although the update of CS2 was very important, I didn't expect it to get stuck like this.

However, an accident made me realize that this stutter may not be a driver problem, but that the driver management tool of Moore thread conflicts with CS2. In short, after turning it off and using the system's own Xbox frame rate monitoring tool, the game finally becomes smooth. Although in the fierce street fighting, the average number of frames is only 40 frames, but the pleasure of the shooting game is finally back.

Then I changed the resolution to 2K, that is, the picture quality in 2K, and the frame rate fluctuated less, with an average of 38 frames. The number of frames in this game is not very ideal for high players, but in my personal experience, it is still very smooth. And if the picture quality is changed to low, then the frame number can be further increased to about 50 frames, which is expected in the future. After all, the occupancy rate of GPU in both pictures is more than 90%, indicating that the graphics card is not lazy.

Of course, we can't just test the official fit, so I turned on Rainbow 6: siege and ran through its own benchmark. Unexpectedly, although it didn't fit, the average frame at 1080p default was 58 frames, 1% Low frame was 19 frames, and the average frame rate at 2K default quality was 54 frames, 1% Low frames was 33 frames. It's not impossible to play at 2K resolution. Driven by July, the average frame of the game is only 36 frames, but it is expected that the official follow-up will be able to quickly optimize this hot online competitive game.

In the online game section, we also tested final Fantasy 14, which scored 5031 points for 1080p high picture quality and 8105 points for standard picture quality in the official test tool.

In the running segments of the two resolutions, the average number of frames is 60-70 frames, and there is no pressure to play.

Stand-alone game part, appetizer we chose death cells and Hades, which appear in the game adaptation list of two boutique independent games, there is no doubt that they do not pose a threat to the Moore thread MTT S80, both in 1080p high-definition quality can run to more than 500frames, 2K resolution also has more than 250frames, I think there is no need to say anything more.

Then there is the 3A game part, combined with the popularity of the game, adaptability and some personal evaluation on the Internet, we selected three games for testing. First of all, there is no adaptation news. In some personal test videos of bilibili in May this year, the Japanese-style JRPG "anecdote 5: the Royal version", which was released in 2018, gave the following conclusions: there are many texture errors and a low number of frames, so you can only make do with it. In almost all scenes, there are only 30 frames or less, and some people say that you can't go to the Jixiang Temple. However, after our actual measurement, the 1080p high-definition running chart in the palace and impression space has reached an average of 45 frames, entering the average combat release skill level of 60 frames, and the game fluency has improved significantly.

In the courtyard-style street exploration section, places with less NPC can go to 40-50 frames, while places with a large number of people will fall to 30 frames, regardless of Jixiang Temple, Central Street or Shibuya, the effect is the same.

The number of combat frames decreased slightly at 2K resolution, with an average of 54 frames.

The number of frames in Jixiang Temple remains around 30 frames, and there are no mapping errors throughout the game. If you have not played more than 60 frames of P5R, then there should be no problem with customs clearance.

The second we have chosen the official support of "Ghost cry 5", this game exploded two BUG, one is I mentioned earlier Moore thread driver management software monitoring tool and game compatibility problem, we all know that "Ghost cry 5" into the game when there is a handsome animation of the protagonist Nero, then directly stuck into PPT, until the monitoring tool of Moore thread suddenly flashed It was only when Nero shook his head at a ghostly speed and then returned to normal. The second BUG is when I try to switch resolutions when I play a full-screen game, the game flashes and the above prompt appears. Fortunately, only some games have this problem, and turning off the monitoring tools will not affect the game experience.

Fortunately, after eliminating these problems, the experience of entering the game is very good, and there are no early mapping errors. No matter the highest picture quality of 1080p or 2K, the average number of frames during combat is about 53 frames, although the number of frames fluctuates to a certain extent. but it doesn't affect the game experience.

Finally, there is also on the official support list of "Island crisis 3," this 10-year-old 3A masterpiece is known as the graphics card killer, but the Moore thread MTT S80 has no problem running to an average of 60-70 frames at 1080p low picture quality, no mismapping and BUG problems, but only 20-30 frames left in 2K HD.

In the above game tests, there are very few games that can fill the GPU occupancy rate, and the video card temperature is not more than 60 degrees, which shows that the Moore thread still has a long way to go in game driver optimization, and the space for optimization is still broad. However, from the test results, under the official diligent update, not only can play more and more games, many not very old 3A can also smooth clearance, in addition to the 3A mentioned in the article, biochemical crisis 6, Soul of Darkness and other classic 3A games can also have a good experience, the speed of progress is visible to the naked eye.

AIGC experience with the increasing popularity of ChatGPT and AI painting tools, more and more ordinary consumers begin to study these tools for creation. Moore thread has always been laid out in the field of AIGC. In view of the high threshold for building AIGC in the local environment, Moore thread has specially launched a multi-AIGC content creation platform, which is more suitable for ordinary people, which provides a variety of access methods, including WEB and Mini Program login, and can also be called remotely by users through rich API.

In the Moore thread driver software, the WEB port of Moore Ma Liang is provided, and users only need to click to experience it immediately, and log in using Wechat to start creation.

Unlike many AI drawing tools provided by Stable Diffusion, Mo Pen Ma Liang not only supports Chinese keywords, but also greatly optimizes the recognition effect. Users only need to manually enter Chinese keywords, select the type of model and painting style, and can draw the picture with one click.

The whole generation time is very fast, five Chinese keywords can be completed in less than 10 seconds, the actual effect is also very excellent, at least for the two-dimensional female characters, the result is good enough to keep the eye, and it is not a problem to draw a "wife" anytime and anywhere. Each drawing needs to consume 1 point, register to send 100 points, buy MTT S80 and then send 3000, this is also a welfare egg given to the user by Moore thread.

The exploration of MTT S80 in AI is much more than that. Interested users can also do their own deployment of Maoliang in WebUI based on MTT S80 in Ubuntu environment. At present, Mo Pen Ma Liang supports Stable Diffusion ecology, including text model, picture model, DeepDanbooru, Textual Inversion, LoRA training and reasoning, ControlNet series model, DreamBooth, image hyper-segmentation model Real-ESRGAN and so on.

Of course, in addition to directly using online AIGC tools such as Midjourney and ChatGPT, more and more AI enthusiasts begin to choose open source-based AIGC models, such as ChatGLM, Stable Diffusion, Llama2 and so on, to DIY their own AIGC tools on PC. On the other hand, MTT S80 is equipped with 16GB super large video memory, which is sufficient to meet the needs of these open source models for large video memory capacity and high memory access bandwidth.

To sum up, we all know that the stacking of Moore thread MTT S80 in hardware is relatively sufficient, but the road of game driver adaptation is destined to be extremely difficult. Even without the bonus of domestic brands, Moore Thread's official attitude and speed of positive adaptation are surprising. Less than a year after the product release, the official launch supports the DX11 community version driver and several major version updates, the number of adaptation and compatibility lists of games is also increasing rapidly, and the classic 3A games released a few years ago can also be played, which in turn makes us have more expectations for domestic graphics cards.

It may be a little difficult for mainstream players to convince themselves to support it at this stage, especially when it comes to its price. Don't worry, Moore Thread has announced double 11 limited pricing, MTT S80 and MTT S70 support full pre-sale, to hand price only 1199 yuan and 899 yuan! How's it going? Does this price still feel expensive? Moore thread in the face of many adversity, chose to reduce the price promotion, adhere to the price down, commendable. Research and development is not easy, it is difficult to catch up, and users have a high performance-to-price ratio, so that ordinary consumers can enjoy real benefits, which may boost public confidence in domestic graphics cards.

A digression, about this wave of big price reductions, such as MTT S80 from 2999 yuan to 1199 yuan, some netizens may think that Moore thread clearance run, but it is too much worry, from the interaction between Moore thread and netizens in bilibili, it is also equivalent to the official response from the side, indicating that the supply is not a problem, we can rest assured.

Finally, I would like to say that when I see the adaptation games of Moore threads springing up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, I think that as long as the authorities take a serious and responsible attitude, I believe that one day this card will be able to swagger all over the e-commerce platform. Show your strength without fear of challenge.

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