Thursday, November 30th 2023
NVIDIA Readies GeForce RTX 4090 D for China to Comply with U.S. Export Controls
NVIDIA is giving final touches to the new GeForce RTX 4090 D, a graphics card SKU specific to the Chinese market, aimed squarely at gamers. The card fills the void for gamers shopping in the enthusiast segment, as all inventory of the regular RTX 4090 has been bought up by Chinese companies to accelerate AI, and controls are in place that prevent NVIDIA from selling the card in its current form in the Chinese market.
What sets this SKU apart is that it is designed to comply with U.S. export controls of GPUs that have the dual use as a high compute-density AI accelerator. In other words, its performance with AI will be artificially limited. This is being done by lowering the card's TPP (total processing performance), which could mean that it ends up slower than the regular RTX 4090. This is somewhat similar in concept to LHR (lite hash rate) GPUs NVIDIA designed for gamers as their regular GPUs were being heaped up by crypto currency miners, although LHR wasn't created due to government policy, but in response to market demand. The RTX 4090 D is expected to retail for RMB 13,000, which is similar to the baseline price of the RTX 4090.
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What sets this SKU apart is that it is designed to comply with U.S. export controls of GPUs that have the dual use as a high compute-density AI accelerator. In other words, its performance with AI will be artificially limited. This is being done by lowering the card's TPP (total processing performance), which could mean that it ends up slower than the regular RTX 4090. This is somewhat similar in concept to LHR (lite hash rate) GPUs NVIDIA designed for gamers as their regular GPUs were being heaped up by crypto currency miners, although LHR wasn't created due to government policy, but in response to market demand. The RTX 4090 D is expected to retail for RMB 13,000, which is similar to the baseline price of the RTX 4090.
55 Comments on NVIDIA Readies GeForce RTX 4090 D for China to Comply with U.S. Export Controls
releasedleakedmistakenly put out into the wild bypassed the LHR functionality of the cards. That driver was then pulled almost immediately.Fast forward about 2 year later and the LHR - which had more or less already been bypassed by miners (even Nicehash could gain full mining functionality of LHR GPUs by now) - was officially "turned off" in Nvidia drivers.
Once LHR was done in hardware, creative mining algo writers worked out how to get around it and still achieve 70%+ functionality from a LHR hardware that was supposed to provide only 1/4 of the unlocked ETH mining performance...
nice joke
Chineese people already buying it trought india or russia... and other countries
Also 4090 Initial D edition when?
Nvidias sleazebag profit attitude will only help China. No mattter if NV gets smacked for evading sanctions and restrictions, China will benefit from both.
Guess selling a legit one in China makes them look better.
Unless they stop selling to all third countries that will turn just ship or truck them in to China anyway pretty pointless.