Thursday, December 7th 2023
No Overclocking and Lower TGP for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D Edition for China
NVIDIA is preparing to launch the GeForce RTX 4090 D, or "Dragon" edition, designed explicitly for China. Circumventing the US export rules of GPUs that could potentially be used for AI acceleration, the GeForce RTX 4090 D is reportedly cutting back on overclocking as a feature. According to BenchLife, the AD102-250 GPU used in the RTX 4090 D will be a stranger to overclocking, as the card will not support it, possibly being disabled by firmware and/or physically in the die. The information from @Zed__Wang suggests that the Dragon version will be running at 2280 MHz base frequency, higher than the 2235 MHz of AD102-300 found in the regular RTX 4090, and 2520 MHz boost, matching the regular version.
Interestingly, the RTX 4090 D for China will also feature a slightly lower Total Graphics Power (TGP) of 425 Watts, down from the 450 Watts of the regular model. With memory configuration appearing to be the same, this new China-specific model will most likely perform within a few percent of the original design. Higher base frequency probably indicates a lack of a few CUDA cores to comply with the US export regulation policy and serve the Chinese GPU market. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D is scheduled for rollout in January 2024 in China, which is just a few weeks away.
Sources:
Benchlife.info, via VideoCardz
Interestingly, the RTX 4090 D for China will also feature a slightly lower Total Graphics Power (TGP) of 425 Watts, down from the 450 Watts of the regular model. With memory configuration appearing to be the same, this new China-specific model will most likely perform within a few percent of the original design. Higher base frequency probably indicates a lack of a few CUDA cores to comply with the US export regulation policy and serve the Chinese GPU market. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D is scheduled for rollout in January 2024 in China, which is just a few weeks away.
34 Comments on No Overclocking and Lower TGP for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D Edition for China
Sounds like the USA government is about to get a bunch of free 4090's lol
www.techspot.com/news/101049-us-government-warns-nvidia-against-circumventing-china-export.html
[I]"If you redesign a chip around a particular cut line, I'm going to control it the very next day"[/I]
I had the 2080 Ti non OC variant
yeah probably
That's another subject entirely though, so I'll refrain from saying anything else there.
What I will say is that the US has every right to withhold its tech, especially from its largest adversary/competitor.
Companies like Nvidia who try and subvert that should be made an example of.
What the US (& other nations) has shown time & again is that the greenback trumps humanity all the time, every time!
asiatimes.com/2023/09/us-sanctions-chinese-firms-for-russia-iran-drone-parts/So many US based headlines on this that it makes the contrarian posters... like really dude??
www.cnn.com/2023/01/04/politics/iranian-drone-parts-13-us-companies-ukraine-russia/index.html
I'm sure AMD isn't allowed to sell Radeon Instinct MI300X to Chinese customers either, and supply them with a product that performs accordingly to allowed performance thresholds to the Chinese market instead. And it's not even anything as serious as the Hygon Dhyana was back when Zen was new.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%E2%80%93Chinese_joint_ventureSpeaking of grudges from the 1990's, I'm sure you refuse to buy Radeon cards to this day because ATI cheated at Quake III.