China-Compliant NVIDIA RTX 4090D Specs Detailed

China-Compliant NVIDIA RTX 4090D Specs Detailed

Gamers in China will soon be greeted with a new version of RTX 4090, as US restrictions have forced NVIDIA to halt the sales of existing units due to exceeding computational limits imposed. The new version, RTX 4090D, is now official – with specs revealed to be slightly cut-down from the original.

Previously, US-imposed sanctions limited the kind of compute hardware allowed to be sold in China (citing concerns for military use), targeting the AI hardware in particular, which previously got Team Green into the uber-exclusive trillion-dollar club of companies. As a result, certain models that exceeded the imposed limits of computational power are no longer allowed to be sold in China – and among the GPUs banned include the H100 chip (which was then replaced by the H800), and the RTX 4090.

NVIDIA published the official specs for the new RTX 4090D, which comes at a slightly reduced count of both CUDA cores (16384 to 14592, an 11% reduction) and Tensor cores (512 to 456, also an 11% reduction). The power draw has been slightly reduced to 425W as well, a reduction of 25 watts from the 450W featured in the vanilla model. VRAM specs remain the same on both variants, however. There’s also seemingly an unfortunate side effect as a result of the sanction, as none of the AIB cards come factory-overclocked – likely to avoid exceeding the legal limits.

The official MSRP for the RTX 4090D in China is RMB 12,999, which equates to around RM8,469 – not far off from the figures we’ve seen in RTX 4090 in general. As for the rest of the world, you won’t be seeing this card appearing in a computer store near you, given that 4090D is simply a byproduct of worsened US-China relations.

Source: Videocardz

Pokdepinion: One can expect comparisons between the vanilla and 4090D pretty soon, I suppose.