Just now, NVIDIA’s official website released the RTX 4090D customized for the Chinese market – D is the legendary Dragon, corresponding to the upcoming Chinese Year of the Dragon.
The design and specifications of RTX 4090D are fully compliant with U.S. export control standards, and can be normally produced and sold in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macau markets.
The Year of the Dragon Chinese customized RTX 4090D is officially released: the performance is only 5% different!
It sacrifices some of the specs and performance, but not much:
The core chip is still AD102 and the numbering has been changed to AD102-250.
The number of CUDA cores has been reduced from 16,384 to 14,592, and the core base frequency has instead been increased slightly from 2235MHz to 2280MHz, while the acceleration frequency has been maintained at 2520MHz, only that it is not open to overclocking.
There are claims that some of the Tensor tensor cores have been streamlined, which makes sense, but the details are unclear for now.
Memory remains unchanged at 384-bit 24GB GDDR6X at 21GHz equivalent.
The total power consumption setting for the card has been reduced from 450W to 425W, with 302W for regular gaming, 26W for video playback, and 19W for idle.
In terms of gaming performance, according to the charts on NVIDIA’s website, the RTX 4090D only loses about 5% compared to the RTX 4090, which is hardly noticeable.
Year of the Dragon China compliant version of RTX 4090D officially released: only 5% difference in performance!
The RTX 4090D will be available from January 2024 onwards, with an official suggested retail price starting at 12,999 RMB, exactly the same as when the RTX 4090 debuted, which is actually largely due to the exchange rate.
Note that the RTX 4090D has no public version of the card, and will be launched by the major AIC brand manufacturers with their own non-public versions. And so on.
In addition, NVIDIA also launched the RTX 40 SUPER series in January, RTX 4070 SUPER, RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, RTX 4080 SUEPR debuted successively, constituting a new generation of complete layout of the RTX 40 family in the year of the dragon.