News Next-gen Chinese GPU touts RTX 2080-level performance — Loongson claims 9A2000 is up to 10x faster than the 9A1000

[Admin]

Chinese chipmaker Loongson has a new GPU in development that blows its entry-level 9A1000 out of the water. According to a senior company executive speaking today, the upcoming Loongson 9A2000 will deliver performance that is '8-10 times that of 9A1000,' according to reports.

Next-gen Chinese GPU touts RTX 2080-level performance — Loongson claims 9A2000 is up to 10x faster than the 9A1000 : Read more

 

[jlake3]

Is this actually intended for the consumer market as a gaming product? The framing of the article makes it sound like it is, but the lack of DX12 support and the weird phrasing of "In terms of GPGPU performance" in the quote makes it sound like it's a server/workstation compute accelerator that also happens to have some basic graphics functionality. Which reminds me of the Moore Threads cards, that last I heard were HORRIBLY under-performing what would be expected based on their FP32 FLOPS/memory bandwidth/TDP/etc., if the games ran at all.

Nothing against them if they're not aiming for the consumer market, but it seems like coverage of Loongson and Moore Threads struggles to determine where their products actually fit into the landscape.

 

[Amdlova]

if is a 2080 its like a 4060 - 4060ti not bad, not good...

 

[YSCCC]

Somehow I have a feeling that after release it is found to be really 100% 2080, and can install NVIDIA driver and identified as such…

 

[pocketdrummer]

Place your bets on how much is that tech was stolen.

 

[YSCCC]

Place your bets on how much is that tech was stolen.

Usually in China, when somethine is claiming same performance as chip X, usually it IS chip X itself, just sanded off the mark and encrave their mark on it

 

[Geef]

Both previous posts were somewhat correct, but one other thing. China ALWAYS says they can do XYZ or they are as fast as PDQ.

We just have to wait for the actual gear to show up and benchmark it. 🤔

 

[Amdlova]

I doubt they can copy a today chip. And people work with this kind of tech as tons of money... they build fabs or something like that. They don't risk get caught and loose everything...

 

[erazog]

Loongson hardware cannot be sold outside of China without an export license so this isn't going to be legally available in the west any time soon.

Also Loongson hardware is designed for it's domestic linux distro LoongOS, maybe Deepin too which has a Loongarch build. LoongOS does have an x86 linux binary translation layer but its not a gaming OS, really more research and development focused. Deepin is more of the you want something like windows.

Longsoon have contributed open source drivers to the linux kernel for their CPU's but graphics hardware is an unknown, hopefully they would be smart enough to open source their GPU driver and build it into Mesa3D like AMD/Intel do but it could be closed source which would restrict it's use with certain linux kernels.

I would be very surprised to see if this got windows drivers, that would undermine their whole effort get away from Windows a US owned IP in China.

Time will tell if it can meet their claims of RTX-2080 levels of rasterization performance.

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

If it’s not capable of handling directx12, then comparing it to a directx12 card is not really applicable. We all know that the 2000 series are essentially 1000 series raster with added tensor and ray tracing cores which is why the 2000 series was such a disappointment.

 

[defunctup]

Place your bets on how much is that tech was stolen.

ah yes because US companies like Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Apple have never stolen tech /s.