After years of dominance over 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 devil is always in the detail, and there's a catch here. That’s because, according to reports, the Loongson 9A2000 is comparable in performance to an RTX 2080, 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 best graphics cards out there from Nvidia today, especially as the 9A2000 lacks support for DirectX 12. Continue reading Nvidia and AMD now have a new gaming GPU rival from China MORE FROM PCGAMESN: GeForce RTX 4070 Super review, DLSS explained, Best graphics cards