NVIDIA releases 'GeForce RTX 4090 D' in China, featuring up to 10% fewer processing cores than 4090 sold in other countries to comply with American export regulations
NVIDIA has announced the RTX 4090 equivalent product 'RTX 4090 D' exclusively for China, which complies with export regulations to China. The price is the same as the RTX 4090, but it has fewer CUDA and Tensor cores.
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D GPU Launched In China: Reduced Cores, Similar Gaming Performance For $1599 US
Compared to the conventional RTX 4090, the number of CUDA cores that indicate the video processing index of the RTX 4090 D has decreased from 16,384 to 14,592, and the number of Tensor cores for AI processing has also decreased from 512 to 456. On the other hand, power consumption has decreased slightly from 450W to 425W, and the base clock has increased slightly from 2230MHz to 2280MHz.
Other performance features such as transistor count, memory bus, and L2 cache remain unchanged from the RTX 4090. According to NVIDIA's official announcement, the RTX 4090 D can perform up to 3.5 times faster in games such as 'Alan Wake 2' than the RTX 3090 Ti, thanks to the RTX 40 series' drawing technology 'DLSS+RT' showing its true potential. It is said to improve performance.
The RTX 4090 D is sold exclusively in China and is priced at 12,999 yuan (approximately 265,000 yen). By the way, when the RTX 4090 was announced in Japan, the price was
NVIDIA, which is based in the United States, is directly affected by the United States government's restrictions on semiconductor exports to China. Due to regulations implemented from 2022 to 2023, NVIDIA will not be able to export its own chips such as 'H100' to China, but in order not to miss out on the huge market, it will produce models exclusively for China that comply with regulations. I'm fighting against it.
On the other hand, the US government does not like these measures taken by private companies, and the Secretary of Commerce has put a check on NVIDIA, saying, ``New products that are redesigns of regulated products will immediately be subject to additional restrictions.'' It's showing movement.
US warns NVIDIA to stop manufacturing chips for China - GIGAZINE
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