Domestic desktop-level GPU chip "Fenghua 2" makes stunning debut, ultra-low power consumption supports fanless design

Latest update time：2022-08-09

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On August 3, Innosilicon’s “ Fenghua 2 ” GPU new product launch conference and cutting-edge technology application seminar were grandly held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Wuhan Optics Valley. As announced at the " Fenghua 1 " press conference at the end of last year, the high-performance domestic desktop-level GPU chip "Fenghua 2" arrived as scheduled, passing benchmark testing, office software, engineering drawing, GIS, gaming and entertainment, and other major tasks. The on-site real-time demonstration of typical applications fully revealed to the industry the mystery of this desktop-level GPU chip that combines ultra-high energy efficiency ratio and many innovative technologies. Its performance leads the domestic desktop, laptop and industrial computer tracks, and the effect is Shocked the whole audience.

▲Innosilicon CEO Ao Hai demonstrated a fanless board using the " Fenghua 2" GPU chip ( at 3-5W operating power consumption )

Revealing the secret of "Fenghua No. 2"

Achieve multiple innovative breakthroughs

During the new product launch, Innosilicon President Ao Hai said that it is the mission of the Innosilicon GPU team to bring Fenghua GPUs into thousands of households, empower colorful lives in the future, and change the history of commercial coreless domestic GPUs. The mission must be achieved, which is the consistent style of Xindongren. " Fenghua 2 " is a desktop and notebook GPU that integrates ultra-low power consumption, strong rendering, 4K high-definition three-screen display, 4K video decoding and intelligent AI computing. It has achieved innovative breakthroughs in multiple self-developed technologies.

▲ Fenghua No. 2 supports three-screen high-definition display (the demonstration scenes are CAD drawing, high-definition video, and Manhattan)

First of all, the measured energy efficiency ratio of " Fenghua 2 " is leading . In the Tongxin 4K desktop environment, Fenghua 2 runs in low power consumption mode. Innosilicon engineers demonstrated on-site various functions such as Kingsoft WPS, video website, ZWCAD, glmark, etc. A typical desktop rendering application operates smoothly; even when multiple applications are turned on at the same time, the working power consumption is only about 4 watts, and its energy efficiency ratio is far better than products with the same computing power on the market . Such low-power independent graphics GPU is rare in the global market. The low heat dissipation requirements greatly increase the system reliability and can support fanless design and support notebooks and MXM all-in-one computers.

▲ OpenGL4.3 level of Fenghua 2 under Unigine Heaven

In addition, " Fenghua 2 " has outstanding rendering capabilities, with a pixel fill rate of 48GPixel/second, FP32 floating point computing power of 1.5TFLOPS, and leading benchmark scores. Engineers demonstrated on site that the Fenghua 2's GLmark2 benchmark score exceeded 6,500 under the Kirin operating system. Through the Unigine Heaven heavy benchmark test, it fully demonstrated the capabilities of OpenGL4.3, and highlighted the rendering effect of surface subdivision (Tessellation) during the demonstration process, creating a three-dimensional image. At the same time, "Fenghua 2" also supports 4K-level three-screen high-definition display, and has excellent performance in office Internet videos, multimedia entertainment and Cangqiong GIS applications. On-site engineers also improvised a trial of the latest heavyweight racing car under Linux. The game has smooth and lifelike graphics and excellent rendering capabilities, which will surely be a boon to gamers and geeks.

▲ Fenghua 2 demonstrates a heavy-duty racing game under Linux

" Fenghua 2 " has also achieved multi-platform compatibility. "Fenghua 2 " has completed mutual authentication with operating systems such as Tongxin and Kirin, and fully supports mainstream domestic CPU platforms such as Feiteng, Loongson, Shenwei, Haiguang, Zhaoxin, and Kunpeng. The real-time rendering of the sky GIS spatial map on the Feiteng D2000+ Unified Communications System was demonstrated on site. The picture was lifelike and immersive. What’s even more surprising is that “ Fenghua 2 ” has smoothly supported Microsoft Win10 DirectX graphics framework. Zhang Tao, chief software architect of DirectX at Innosilicon Technology, said, “Windows DirectX 11 strictly requires support for various advanced features including tessellation. Rendering technology is extremely difficult to develop. So far, only a few companies in the world have GPUs that support Windows DirectX 11. Engineers demonstrated on-site various applications such as QQ communication, office Internet access, and entertainment games under the Win10 operating system, which were perfectly realized. With smooth rendering of a variety of complex scenes and detailed presentation of surface subdivisions, the 3D rendering performance can fully meet the needs of daily work and entertainment, and has strong one-stop applicability.

▲ "Fenghua 2" rendering display on Windows 10 system

Ask the canal where you can find such clear water, because there is a source of living water. The performance advantage of " Fenghua 2 " does not come out of thin air. It embodies many of the world's top high-performance computing IPs that Innosilicon has crafted over the past 16 years. Just as Fenghua 1 adopts the world's first GDDR6/6X Combo high-performance IP, making Its graphics memory bandwidth is leading, and "Fenghua 2" reproduces Xindong's black technology. It has self-developed the world's first and fastest LPDDR5X graphics memory technology, reaching a new bandwidth of 10Gbps at desktop-level low power consumption, helping " Fenghua 2 " achieve breakthroughs in graphics card performance. , and is backward compatible with LPDDR5/4 and supports domestic Changxin video memory particles. The self-research rate of "Fenghua 2" GPU is very outstanding, such as PCIe3.0, LPDDR5/4, HDMI2.0/DP/eDP1.4/VGA, and China's patented physical unclonable PUF security technology, which are all long-term authorized by Innosilicon. Innosilicon's self-developed advantageous technology, Innosilicon GPU core continues to independently optimize after obtaining the architecture authorization. It is precisely because the team has strong IP self-research capabilities that it has the ability to innovate the full-stack underlying core technology, thus achieving the goal of outperforming others. Blue's lead overtakes. It is also due to the advantages of Innosilicon interface technology that its products are very universal. The board supports Changxin, Changcun and other memory, video memory, and power management chips, making it a graphics card with an outstanding rate of domestic self-development from IP to board. The product has superior performance and achieved a milestone breakthrough. In addition, the AI computing capabilities of the " Fenghua 2 " graphics card were also demonstrated on site , supporting scientific/edge computing, with AI performance exceeding 12.5TOPS, and supporting real-time applications in various scenarios such as face recognition, target recognition, semantic segmentation, and image super-resolution. , exceeding the AI computing level of traditional low-power desktop graphics cards.

▲ Top left : Fenghua 2 can smoothly support heavy rendering of Manhattan

▲ Top right: Fenghua 2’s powerful AI edge computing capabilities

▲ Bottom : Fenghua 2 heavy scene rendering in Win10 system

▲Bottom right : Fenghua 2 smoothly supports Cangqiong GIS spatial map

" Fenghua 2 " was comparable to the comprehensive performance of international mainstream graphics cards in various standard tests and demonstrations, arousing the exclamation of the audience. Many people in the industry went to the demonstration room to operate the "Fenghua 2" desktop system in person and confirmed that they had a satisfactory experience! One end customer said approvingly, "A domestic graphics card achieves low power consumption and low cost while ensuring high performance. It also supports fanless design. Not only does heavy rendering on Linux and Android operating systems feel silky smooth, The support for Windows 10 is also very smooth, which is unexpected. It took a lot of effort at first glance. The performance of 'Fenghua 2' is really amazing, which is really not easy! This also shows that domestic GPUs are entering a stage from being usable to being easy to use. In the future, domestic GPUs will be ordinary. The user’s graphics card experience will also be improved.”

Fenghua series GPU signed contract

Batch applications cross milestones

At the press conference, the stunning performance of " Fenghua 2 " attracted praise from a number of upstream and downstream partners. The atmosphere was enthusiastic and the response was enthusiastic. Many customers expressed their cooperation and purchase intentions on the spot. At the meeting, upstream and downstream partners such as China Energy Construction Investment, Gaolan Holdings (300499), Tongxin Software, Kirin Software, Zeta Cloud, Ucade (688158) and other upstream and downstream partners signed contracts with Innosilicon on-site to discuss Fenghua series GPUs on the desktop They have reached long-term and in-depth strategic cooperation in fields such as , data centers and cloud computing, and are committed to the software and hardware innovation and product commercialization of domestic GPUs. The scale of on-site signed cooperation has reached 500 million.

A partner said, "Innosilicon Technology is a company that does big things quietly. Every time it releases a product, it is not a show for financing. It is a breakthrough heavyweight product as soon as it is launched, and it really goes straight to the commercial theme. The previous ' Fenghua 1' " Fenghua 2 " has allowed us to see its broad prospects in the 5G data center cloud scenario. Today's " Fenghua 2 " has lived up to our expectations. Its rendering smoothness, edge computing and energy efficiency ratio under multiple operating systems on the desktop are not inferior to international ones. Competing with similar products, the team is full of innovative energy, making partners full of confidence. The choice of Xindong and Fenghua products is not only driven by domestic sentiment.”

The culmination of sixteen years

Fenghua GPU reaches new heights

Rome was not built in a day, and the door of opportunity for domestic GPUs will not be achieved overnight either. The successful development of "Fenghua 2" is the result of 16 years of long-term hard work and ingenuity of the Innosilicon team. Mao Mingming, vice president of Innosilicon Technology, said, “In the past 16 years, Innosilicon Technology has been low-key and pragmatic, daring to be the first, and overcoming difficulties. The team has been sitting on the bench for ten years and has an industry record of more than 200 advanced process tape-outs. The company has a major role in GPU. Despite investment in development, we have always maintained profitability and did not need any financing to maintain it. It can be said that our GPU production did not cost investors a penny, because the core is used behind more than 6 billion advanced SOC chips of world-renowned companies. Our profits can support our healthy and organic development. Innosilicon is a company that relies on its own hard technology to create core value. Innosilicon used to be a behind-the-scenes hero and was very famous in the to B circle, providing services to major semiconductor foundries and companies. Provide empowerment to upstream and downstream customers. Driven by demand and combining advantages accumulated over many years, Innosilicon has pioneered the global market through customized mass production and achieved fruitful results in 2021 . For the first time in the field of cloud applications and data centers, we have realized multi-user 1080P and multi-channel hardware virtualization, and various high-definition encoding/decoding/transcoding functions. In the past six months, Xingrenren has continued to innovate and pursue victory, completing a full set of core underlying technology optimization and ecological adaptation. Equipped with high-end products, we have launched a low-power version of desktop-class products that live up to expectations.”

▲The GPU display area is very popular

" Fenghua No. 1 ", which has entered industrialization , demonstrated its smooth operation of Honor of Kings in a simultaneous multi-channel 1080P cloud gaming scene. Many young viewers were amazed. The person in charge of (China Unicom) Xiaowo Technology said, "The domestic cloud gaming industry is The layout has always relied entirely on international mainstream graphics cards, which are always lacking in cost-effectiveness and customization. It is really shocking to see such a domestic GPU that can support multi-channel virtualization, and it is a worthwhile trip! "

▲Fenghua 1 can support 16 channels of 1080P cloud games at the same time

The continuous evolution of high-tech self-developed technology is the key to GPU iteration capabilities and core competition. He Ying, GPU project director of Innosilicon Technology, said, "Modern GPUs cover a wide range of areas and have many technical barriers in development and application. It is necessary to come up with a product that is suitable for It is an industry-leading graphics GPU and is smoothly compatible with various applications. Innosilicon’s one-stop IP and full set of system architecture customization services provide innovative power for Fenghua GPU’s rapid iteration. : Breaking the memory wall, the world's most powerful GDDR6/6X Combo IP, HBM3/2e IP, LPDDR5/5X/DDR5 IP and other high-speed storage solutions; 32/56G SerDes (PCIe6/5/4) high-speed communication interface, UCIe Chiplet interconnection solutions, as well as autonomous evolution of the GPU core, etc. Therefore, like Apple, Innosilicon continues to optimize the GPU core based on the initial architecture authorization, and now has a complete and independent grasp of the GPU core evolution architecture diagram and has its own GPU architecture. Control and have the ability to release two GPUs every year in the next three years. For example, ' Fenghua 2 ' can support APIs above DX11/OpenGL4.2, which are not available in the original GPU architecture."

Dr. Yang Xile, chief GPU scientist of Innosilicon, who has been engaged in leading architecture development for the world's top GPU companies for more than 25 years and holds 125 international patents in the core field of 3D graphics, shared, "Innosilicon continues to launch the first GPU ' Fenghua No. 1' in 2021. 'Release, we quickly launched the new low-power high-performance GPU ' Fenghua 2 ' with independent technical characteristics. This is because we have a very excellent technical team, from the GPU architecture R&D team to the GPU hardware and software development team, high-end DDR and bus Design and experienced back-end teams, etc., we worked together to overcome the difficulties and made rapid progress. Making a GPU is a very complicated matter, but the Innosilicon team has never been afraid of difficulties, targeting office desktops, vehicle-mounted smart cockpits, and cloud games. , cloud computing and other markets, we continue to launch new GPU products, design and evolve advanced GPU architecture, achieve top rendering performance, while taking into account low power consumption and highly scalable design to meet the different needs of customers. Several Fenghua GPUs will be supported in the future. The most advanced graphics processing ecosystem such as ray tracing further supports frameworks such as Direct Engineering computing and other wide range of application fields. Innosilicon has a first-class and experienced team of experts in the field of GPU. We are confident and capable of accepting all challenges, and we are confident of benchmarking against the top international standards and opening up a new future for domestic GPUs.”

Under the digital wave

How to win-win with domestic GPUs

With the surge in demand for 5G new infrastructure, medical imaging, smart manufacturing, autonomous driving, smart cockpits, cloud computing, and localization of smart terminals, GPU applications continue to expand. China's GPU market has huge scale and growth potential, and is now close to 50 billion yuan. In this regard, experts participating in the roundtable forum said, "The more the digital economy develops, the higher the performance requirements for GPUs on the application side. Mismatched performance, poor applicability, imperfect functions, and immature system ecology are obviously factors that affect the competitive market of domestic products." The pain points are also the reason why end companies and users are afraid and unwilling to use domestic GPUs. However, the Fenghua series GPU dares to directly address the pain points and is the first to break the curse, with leading products that are precisely customized and continuously iterated, giving full play to function customization and timely response. , product versatility advantages, standing on the top of the wave. "On how to jointly build a new ecosystem and promote the process of localized GPU, the experts at the roundtable forum agreed that industry upstream and downstream partners, academic institutions, scientific research institutes, etc. need to work together. Only by building an ecosystem can we achieve long-term win-win results. It is a long process for domestic GPUs to go from usable to easy to use, which requires time for promotion, layout, optimization, and improvement. It also requires user support, tolerance, and error correction.

▲The atmosphere was warm and full of guests

In the face of everyone's high expectations for Fenghua series GPUs, Mr. Ao Hai, President of Innosilicon Technology, said, "Innosilicon's mission is to bring Fenghua GPUs into thousands of households and empower smart lives. 'Fenghua 2' is Innosilicon's empowerment The beginning of the desktop ecological chain will kick off the entry of Fenghua series GPUs into the mass market. The strong iteration capabilities of advanced processes and the team's ability to overcome difficulties are the inherent advantages of Innosilicon. We rely on the support of our own IP and global foundry partners. Continuously evolve advanced technology to ensure continued leadership in performance, supply chain security, and cost-effectiveness to meet users' customized needs. At present, 'Fenghua 3' has basically completed research and development, and will provide domestic users with ultra-large computing power, light tracking and other cool features; GPGPU. And cockpit products are also being defined with customers, and more customized computing product lines will follow in the future. Relying on R&D, focusing on the market, and looking at the world, we are determined to empower the domestic GPU industry chain!"

*For more information about Fenghua GPU, please visit https://www.innosilicon.cn/ or call 18502769661; the success of our customers is our success, and Innosilicon will serve you wholeheartedly.

About Innosilicon Technology

Innosilicon is a leading one-stop IP and GPU company in China, with core competitiveness in three major areas: computing, storage and connectivity. In the 16 years since its establishment, the company has been polished through hundreds of advanced process tape-outs, and has authorized and customized mass production of more than 6 billion high-end SoC chips. It has signed contracts with major mainstream foundries around the world (TSMC/Samsung/GlobalFoundries/SMIC/UMC/Intel/HuaLi, etc.), and is the official technical partner of the world's two major 5-nanometer process line certifications. "Let Fenghua GPU enter thousands of households and empower smart life" is the mission and motivation of Innosilicon. The Fenghua series continuously upgrades the GPU core to create a high-performance GPU processor with a smooth experience. It is currently a high-performance GPU product series in China that supports multiple frameworks, has strong scalability and reliability. The Fenghua series uses a full set of independent high-end IPs, such as GDDR6/6X video memory technology, HDMI2.1/DP/eDP/VGA high-definition interface technology, and physically unclonable PUF security technology, which has strong reliability, security and energy efficiency in the fields of graphics rendering and intelligent computing. Fenghua GPU supports various software graphics frameworks such as OpenGL, Vulkan, and DirectX, and is compatible with a variety of domestic and foreign CPUs as well as mainstream operating systems such as Linux, Android, and Windows.

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