Loongson says its 9A2000 GPU has the performance of an RTX 2080

Chinese semiconductor manufacturer Loongson has decided to make more ambitious promises, this time for its GPUs. The company, which has been hyping its processors, now claims that its new 9A2000 graphics card has similar performance to an RTX 2080.

While the RTX 2080 is already “feeling its age” – having been released in 2018 – it is still a competent GPU from the manufacturer that currently leads the segment. For a relatively new company in the area, which still faces trade sanctions from the US, Loongson does not hold back on its promises. The statements were made by one of the company’s directors, Hu Weiwu, at a meeting with investors.

While the Loongson 9A2000’s performance is indeed comparable to the RTX 2080, its compatibility apparently won’t be. Hu said that the card will “may” support DirectX 12, which will make a big difference in its ability to run games.

However, the executive was quick to point out that the GPU is capable of handling the current Chinese hit, Black Myth: Wukong. Since the game supports DirectX 11, Loongson’s new card can run it. It remains to be seen how the game will perform in practice.

Loongson’s focus is still its CPU

Even while promoting his new GPU at the investor meeting, the Loongson executive didn’t want to miss the chance to talk about his next processor, the 3B6600.

Hu had previously commented on this CPU, which uses LA864 architecture with eight cores. The manufacturer promises performance “comparable to 12th and 13th generation Intel” for the component.

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Now the director has spoken about the product again. He says that Loongson has made “significant” changes to the hardware, ensuring that it will offer “world-leading” performance.

And that’s the kind of performance the CPU really needs to achieve if the company wants to have any hope of ever reaching the hardware market outside of China.