To circumvent the impact of the US export ban on China, NVIDIA launched a specially designed GeForce RTX 4090 D for the Chinese market, boasting that its gaming performance is not much different from that of the standard version of the GeForce RTX 4090.
Although the original ban did not affect consumer-grade graphics cards designed for gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 became the only consumer-grade graphics card banned from export to the Chinese market due to its excessive performance because its display performance exceeded the specifications covered by the ban.
The GeForce RTX 4090 D is primarily a simplified version of the GeForce RTX 4090, reducing the number of CUDA cores from 16384 to 14592, keeping the thermal design power consumption to 425W, and slightly increasing the operating clock speed to 2.28GHz. However, to avoid exceeding the performance limit, the GeForce RTX 4090 D's maximum operating clock speed after overclocking is limited to 2.52GHz.
But even as a simplified version, the overall computing performance of the GeForce RTX 4090 D is still higher than that of the GeForce RTX 4080 and GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, and it supports gaming experience enhancement technologies such as DLSS 3. Therefore, NVIDIA claims that this graphics card launched for the Chinese market still provides a complete gaming display experience.
