NVIDIA Prepares the GeForce RTX 4090 D for China in Order to Adhere to US Export Regulations

The new GeForce RTX 4090 D, a graphics card SKU designed specifically for the Chinese market and targeted primarily at gamers, is nearing completion according to NVIDIA. Since Chinese companies have purchased all of the stock of the regular RTX 4090 to speed up AI, and because of regulations, NVIDIA is not allowed to sell the card in its current configuration in the Chinese market, this card fills the gap for gamers who are shopping in the enthusiast segment.

This SKU is unique in that it is made to abide by US export regulations pertaining to GPUs that can also be used as high compute-density AI accelerators. Put differently, its artificial intelligence performance will be restricted. Lowering the card’s TPP (total processing performance) is how this is accomplished, and it may result in it being slower than the standard RTX 4090. This is conceptually similar to the LHR (lite hash rate) GPUs that NVIDIA created for gamers in response to the demand from the market rather than government policy, as regular GPUs were being overloaded by miners of cryptocurrency. Retail pricing for the RTX 4090 D is anticipated to be RMB 13,000, which is comparable to the RTX 4090’s starting price.