[STEAM] Nvidia and AMD now have a new gaming GPU rival from China

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PC gamers, there's potentially a new rival to Nvidia and AMD in town. The upcoming Loongson 9A2000 graphics card is launching in China with up to ten times faster performance than the 9A1000 it's replacing. That sounds good, but the ****** is always in the detail, and there's a catch here.

That's because, according to reports, the

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9A2000 is comparable in performance to an

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, Nvidia's former flagship card from two generations ago that launched back in 2018. Gaming has moved on a long way since then, so a card with similar performance isn't likely to appeal today unless it's very cheap. It's certainly not going to challenge the

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out there from

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today, especially as the 9A2000 lacks support for DirectX 12.

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