News Nvidia's made-for-China RTX 4090D is only 5% slower in gaming performance than the original RTX 4090

[Admin]

Nvidia's RTX 4090D is a cut-down version of the RTX 4090 that's legal to export to China, and it's hardly any slower at all.

Nvidia's made-for-China RTX 4090D is only 5% slower in gaming performance than the original RTX 4090 : Read more

 

[KyaraM]

Well, it's good that gamers can get this card in China now and won't leave much gaming performance on the table. I have to agree, though, that the 10% less AI capability hardly makes a difference. Just shows the ineffectiveness of the sanctions and what I said from the start; they have to define clear goals and then set the parameters accordingly, not some half-baked nonsense that'seven saying or doing anything and threats.

 

[elforeign]

This one is going to get sanctioned in no time at all. Nvidia is hoping to flout U.S regulators and hope to get away with it for as long as possible. China is too big a market to just take sanctions sitting down.

I expect Gina Raimondo is going to be amused by Nvidia and continue to make their lives increasingly difficult. They're just playing a game of chicken now.

 

[helper800]

This one is going to get sanctioned in no time at all. Nvidia is hoping to flout U.S regulators and hope to get away with it for as long as possible. China is too big a market to just take sanctions sitting down.

I expect Gina Raimondo is going to be amused by Nvidia and continue to make their lives increasingly difficult. They're just playing a game of chicken now.

It's not flouting sanctions if it is allowed. The US government needs to put sanctions that make sense for its goals, not arbitrary BS that they go back on because Nvidia is just following the rules.

 

[tamalero]

I'm confused, is the D version sporting more SMs?
or the numbers were incorrectly inverted?

 

[Avro Arrow]

Pardon the pun but it would appear that nVidia has just rendered those sanctions irrelevant. 🤣

It wouldn't matter to us gamers anyway because the RTX 4090 was never made for gamers to begin with. Since gamers in China still had access to powerhouse cards like the RTX 4080 and RX 7900 XTX, no gamers were harmed in this debacle because there are no games that those two cards can't effortlessly handle. They're the real flagships for gamers, just like how Jensen referred to the RTX 3080 as the RTX 30-series' "flagship card":