Fuxi A0: a 5nm Imagination DXD graphics card with ray tracing

China’s Xiang Dixian has unveiled the Fuxi A0, a next-generation graphics card built on Imagination’s fresh DXD architecture and manufactured on a 5-nanometer process. The ICCAD Expo showing marked a confident debut, with the GPU making its first public run and confirming support for ray tracing and the company’s own super-resolution algorithm.

DXD is one of Imagination Technologies’ most advanced designs, positioned as a peer to desktop-class graphics solutions. Products from other Chinese vendors already use this platform, yet Fuxi A0 becomes the first next-generation card in series production, delivering a noticeable leap in rendering speed over its predecessors. According to the company, the GPU can handle complex 3D scenes and digital twin demonstrations by leveraging hardware ray-tracing blocks and detail-boosting algorithms.

Earlier reports indicated the Fuxi line will include A0 and B0 versions. The A0 shown today targets visualization and gaming, while the B0 will add an integrated NPU with FP8 support for mixed workloads. Expected performance reaches 160 TFLOPS, and the card offers 12 GB of video memory. Judging by the mock-up, the board uses a dual-slot design with a two-fan cooler and likely four DRAM slots—though the exact configuration has not yet been confirmed.

On the stand, a ray-traced scene from Black Myth: Wukong ran at about 35 frames per second on the Fuxi A0—an early but telling proof that the architecture is already working. Xiang Dixian already has experience building Imagination-based GPUs, including the XDX 121 and 151, as well as solutions for workstations and servers. The Fuxi A0 is poised to become the company’s most advanced product.

Mass production is planned to begin next year, paving the way for a market release in the near term.