Loongson’s First GPU Chip 9A1000 to Deliver Tape-Out in Q3, Competing with AMD RX 550

Recently, an investor asked Loongson Technology on an interactive platform whether the 9A1000 has successfully completed tape-out.

Today, Loongson Technology stated that the development of the first GPGPU chip 9A1000 is basically complete, and it will deliver tape-out within the third quarter, with success depending on the test results after the tape-out returns.

Loongson's First GPU Chip 9A1000 to Deliver Tape-Out in Q3, Competing with AMD RX 550

It is understood that the Loongson 9A1000 is positioned as an entry-level, with performance expected to reach the level of AMD’s RX 550 released in 2017.

The Loongson 9A1000 supports PCIe 4.0 system bus, paired with 128-bit LPDDR4X video memory.

It supports graphics and compute standard APIs such as OpenGL 4.0 and OpenCL 3.0, and integrates a video processing module, capable of hardware decoding H.264 and H.265, and can output HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4, and VGA.

In terms of performance, it has a pixel fill rate of 16 GP/s (1.6 billion pixels per second), a texture fill rate of 32 GT/s (3.2 billion textures per second), and computing power of FP32 1 TFlops (1 trillion operations per second), FP64 64 GFlops (64 billion operations per second), and INT8 32 TFlops (32 trillion operations per second).

Loongson's First GPU Chip 9A1000 to Deliver Tape-Out in Q3, Competing with AMD RX 550

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