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NVIDIA Prepares Cut-Down GeForce RTX "5090DD" for China

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When we heard the news that NVIDIA will be halting shipments to Chinese customers for its GeForce RTX 5090D GPU in Q2, there were some speculations that the company is preparing to make a comeback. Leaving out the Chinese market is a tough decision from a business standpoint, but NVIDIA complies with export regulations imposed by the US administration under Donald Trump. However, the company now plans to keep its presence in China with the release of the export-abiding GeForce "RTX 5090DD" GPU. Carrying a GB202-240 die, it will be a cut-down version with reportedly only 14,080 CUDA cores present, paired with 24 GB of GDDR7 memory.

Chinese gamers will notice a significant difference, but so will anyone trying to acquire these GPUs for non-gaming purposes. As the US administration has banned shipments of high-end chips to China to stop them from training military-grade AI, gaming GPUs have been a target of AI firms. Now, a modified GeForce RTX 5090 DD, which not only cuts with raw compute but also firmware, should be sufficient for gaming. Carrying a PG145 SKU 40 board, the new RTX 5090DD GPU will also feature a modified 384-bit bus for its 24 GB of memory, down from the original RTX 5090D's 512-bit bus.

Update 09:45 UTC: According to one of the most accurate NVIDIA leakers, kopite7kimi, the core count for this GPU is supposed to be 21,760 CUDA cores, with 575 W TDP. The leaker did note that there is some surprise, so NVIDIA has definitely changed something big under the hood to comply with export regulations.



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I hope whoever handles Nvidia's database was wise enough to allocate space for a dozen more extra "D"s in their SKU column...
 
Basicly an RTX 5080 Ti. And more or less an RTX 4090 with GDDR7. Will be interesting to see how it performs against an RTX 4090.
 
remekra said:
With that double Ds naming, there is a lot of marketing potential for some weird anime themed cards.
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No J cups, no fun.
 
Imagine the cooler design potential for cards named like this.
 
remekra said:
With that double Ds naming, there is a lot of marketing potential for some weird anime themed cards.
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Well, they would have to go to the king of anime, ie Japan, for those, but yea, I can only imagine the forthcoming parities of spec comparisons between the D, DD, DDD, DDDD etc versions. Should be an entertaining read...:D
 
NVIDIA complies with export regulations imposed by the US administration under Donald Trump
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This reminds me of that German car group

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Shihab said:
I hope whoever handles Nvidia's database was wise enough to allocate space for a dozen more extra "D"s in their SKU column...
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Was just gonna say: This is turning out to be nVidia's version of Intel's "14nm+++++....." running joke.

Chomiq said:
No J cups, no fun.
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The "Lolo Ferrari Edition"?
 
I do wonder if this will end up in the western market as the 5080ti
 
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Rumor has it that it comes with a special fabric sling to help reduce backplate strain.
 
They could have at least made the fans pink and put tassles on them.
 
The China administration has banned shipments of Rare Earth to US to stop them make everything for army
 
Why not call it 5080 Ti or something. That's definitely not a 5090 considering the specs.
 
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