Exclusive version for mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau markets: NVIDIA will soon release RTX 4090D graphics card

On November 16, NVIDIA is actively developing a new version of the graphics card RTX 4090D designed specifically for mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao to cope with local production and sales bans. This special edition graphics card will bring a range of unique features and design tweaks to suit the specific needs and regulations of local markets. This graphics card means 2024, the Chinese Year of the Dragon, so "D" is added to the name, which stands for "Dragon"

According to industry sources, this RTX 4090D will It uses a different GPU core from the original RTX 4090, numbered AD102-250. This number is the same as RTX Compared with the AD102-300/301 on the 4090, the numbers appear lower, indicating possible performance degradation. According to NVIDIA's naming convention, this usually means that the product may have reduced technical specifications, although the specific details and performance indicators are still a mystery for now.

According to the editor’s understanding, although there is no official statement about the detailed specifications of the RTX 4090D, the industry generally speculates that its CUDA core number will be less than 16384. At the same time, this graphics card is expected to maintain the 24GB GDDR6X memory configuration. Importantly, its computing performance is not expected to exceed 4800TOPS, in order to comply with market sales restrictions. This performance cap ensures that the product will not hit the boundary of being banned, but also hints at its potential limitations in performance

In order to remain competitive in the market, the performance of the RTX 4090D must significantly surpass the RTX 4080 SUPER . RTX 4080 SUPER uses the AD103-400 core, has 10240 CUDA cores and 16GB GDDR6X video memory. Therefore, in order to fill the performance gap between the RTX 4080 SUPER and the original RTX 4090, the RTX 4090D needs to improve on this basis.

To comply with regulations, NVIDIA may The overclocking capabilities of the RTX 4090D are limited. This means that while in theory it may have higher performance potential, in practice users may not be able to exploit its full capabilities. Such a limit may be to prevent the performance after overclocking from exceeding the specified upper limit to avoid violating market rules

There is currently no exact information about the price of RTX 4090D. However, given its specific market positioning and expected technical specifications, it is likely to be priced close to or equal to the existing RTX 4090, which may be of some concern to consumers. If the price is too high, it may raise questions in the market, especially after taking into account possible limitations in performance. Therefore, NVIDIA needs to be cautious in its pricing strategy to balance performance, cost and market demand.

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