Due to export restrictions, China’s access to NVIDIA’s flagship RTX 5090 GPU is limited; as such, the chipmaker has developed Chinese-specific versions with reduced AI capabilities to comply with US laws, starting from the RTX 4090 (D). Intriguingly, on top of RTX 5090 D, there’s another one in the works with a rather odd ‘RTX 5090 DD’ moniker.
RTX 5090 DD Leaked
The ‘D’ originally denoted Year of the Dragon back in 2024 – the year RTX 4090 D debuted – but that meaning is lost as we are already in year 2025 and has long moved past the Chinese New Year. Similar stories happened to AMD’s ‘GRE’ naming (originally Golden Rabbit Edition), though Team Red at least managed to spin it into a new name (now Great Radeon Edition) somewhat convincingly.
Based the leaked information provided by MEGAsizeGPU and kopite7kimi, we’re looking at the exact same core count as the RTX 5090 D, and by extension, the RTX 5090 (21,760 CUDA cores), though the silicon model indicates a different subvariant (GB202-240). There is also a big reduction in VRAM capacity, now down to 24GB, and comes with its own bandwidth penalty owing to a narrower memory bus. This is likely another step in curbing AI use, as most AI models do require large amounts of memory to operate.
The leaker also mentioned the PCB model code (PG145), indicating that this will be a reference board for AIB partners, and not the custom multi-board design currently used in NVIDIA’s own Founders Edition designs. This suggests that there will be AIB versions, and while it doesn’t entirely rule out if NVIDIA will reuse its FE cooler for this, the chipmaker may chose not to, given the additional costs already incurred on redesigning the AIB reference board for this specific variant.
Source: Videocardz
Pokdepinion: Let’s hope we don’t end up seeing “RTX 5090 DDD” at some point.
