NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090D Sales to China Will Be Fully Halted in Q2

[AleksandarK]

Even after NVIDIA tuned its GB202 SKU for Chinese gamers, it looks like the GeForce RTX 5090D will be banned from selling in China altogether. Back in April, NVIDIA warned its AIC partners about a potential supply cutoff for the GeForce RTX 5090D GPU, more specifically, the restriction of selling the GB202 dies to Chinese AIC customers. Today, we have another report from the Chinese "Channel Gate Vision Convergence," stating that no new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090D GPUs will be sold in China in Q2. All new orders being placed for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090D kits, which are essentially a GPU die and GDDR7 memory for AICs to add on their PCBs, have been temporarily cancelled, which is an action equivalent to a full-scale sales ban.

The machine-translated post states the following: "NVIDIA RTX5090D series models are basically confirmed that there will be no GPU available in Q2, which means that RTX5090D cannot be sold to the Chinese market, and graphics card brands will not be able to receive GPU orders. NV has basically confirmed that RTX5090D series GPUs will not be able to receive orders in Q2. All orders for 5090D chips that have been placed and undelivered POs have been temporarily canceled, which is equivalent to the RTX5090D being officially banned from sale." As a reminder, NVIDIA optimized the RTX 5090D to comply with export regulations. Despite having 21,760 CUDA cores and 32 GB of memory, the card was intentionally restricted in its AI performance through firmware limitations. This strategy enabled NVIDIA to sell the card in China, a country listed under US export regulations, while the standard RTX 5090 was banned.



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[Klemc]

CTRL+ALT+DEL

 

[kondamin]

People running side channels must be very happy about this.

 

[Rightness_1]

This will do nothing to stop nGreedia from getting GPUs to China, their largest market...

But serious question... They were forced to make a 4090D because the compute power was deemed too potent for China, fine. So how was the even more powerful 5090D ever a thing in the first place?

 

[Chomiq]

People running side channels must be very happy about this.

Knowing Nvidia they'll soon get a big client from a non blacklisted country.

 

[ZoneDymo]

This will do nothing to stop nGreedia from getting GPUs to China, their largest market...

But serious question... They were forced to make a 4090D because the compute power was deemed too potent for China, fine. So how was the even more powerful 5090D ever a thing in the first place?

Seeing as the 5090 is basically just an over locked 4090, it seems easy to dumb it down enough to sell

 

[Red Hood]

This will do nothing to stop nGreedia from getting GPUs to China, their largest market...

But serious question... They were forced to make a 4090D because the compute power was deemed too potent for China, fine. So how was the even more powerful 5090D ever a thing in the first place?

The 5090D has the same hardware specs as the 5090 but apparently they lowered the ai performance in the firmware so it "complied" with trade regulations

This means more 5090 sales to Singapore and Malaysia

 

[Bwaze]

Maybe they'll sell them to Western gamers, D stands for "De Best"?

 

[Rover4444]

Woah, what? That sucks. Hope China gets their GPUs.

 

[redeye]

well it is for the best, they are stupid expensive, so not being able to buy them is a good thing… they are graphics cards, not AI cards. do you really need need a graphics card that can run code three times faster than a PS five pro… which costs 4 times as much as a ps5pro or ps6 or ps6pro?.

 

[TechLurker]

Looks like there will be more smuggling via lobsters and fake pregnancies soon. Or maybe watermelons. I hear those are popular for blocking x-rays. /h

 

[Rightness_1]

Maybe they'll sell them to Western gamers, D stands for "De Best"?

I think the D stands for Dunce, as that's what you would have to be to actually believe that China doesn't get around NV's "restrictions" on A.i. performance. They were probably handed the unlock key "unofficially" years ago, or just simply cracked it themselves.

 

[Rover4444]

Looks like there will be more smuggling via lobsters and fake pregnancies soon. Or maybe watermelons. I hear those are popular for blocking x-rays. /h

How would watermelons even work?

 

[TechLurker]

How would watermelons even work?

It's based on old smuggler stories that watermelons were great for hiding human trafficking, weapons, and nuclear weapons smuggling across borders, since they were supposedly dense enough to absorb high-power x-ray scanners used to scan cargo vehicles passing through border checkpoints. Granted, this was back in the early 00s when such stories came out. Hence the /humor bit, since newer scanning devices have since been made to be able to pierce through an entire shipment of watermelons to find hidden smuggling boxes.

 

[Rover4444]

It's based on old smuggler stories that watermelons were great for hiding human trafficking, weapons, and nuclear weapons smuggling across borders, since they were supposedly dense enough to absorb high-power x-ray scanners used to scan cargo vehicles passing through border checkpoints. Granted, this was back in the early 00s when such stories came out. Hence the /humor bit, since newer scanning devices have since been made to be able to pierce through an entire shipment of watermelons to find hidden smuggling boxes.

Oh, I thought you cut open a watermelon and put a GPU inside... same with the other stuff, like a GPU lobster? 5090 baby? Huh???