NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & RTX 5090D Allegedly Feature Same GPU Configurations & Clocks, Other Aspects Being Tuned For Compliance
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 & the China-exclusive RTX 5090D are said to feature the same GPU configurations & clock speeds.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 For Global & RTX 5090D For China Rumored To Feature Same GPU Configurations
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090D, a variant of the upcoming RTX 5090 flagship gaming graphics card, was recently confirmed when its box materials leaked out. This special variant will be designed to meet the US export regulations, but it looks like, unlike the RTX 4090D, the RTX 5090D might retain the same core configuration as the non-D variant.
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When NVIDIA launched the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090D, they did so in a rush to offer something for the Chinese gaming segment as the RTX 4090 was export-banned due to its TPP rating exceeding that set by the US regulators. This forced NVIDIA to simply cut down the specs of the original 4090 and save time rather than looking into other methods to reduce the TPP figure. Look at the NVIDIA LHR lock in a way that is a hardware-level lock that prevented the gaming GPUs from being used as a miner card (although it was bypassed later on).
With the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090D, the green team might be once again going this route, locking in the hardware from exceeding the TPP rating despite featuring the same core configuration as the RTX 5090. At least that is what's being said by Chiphell Forum member, Panzerlied, who has a history of sharing such tidbits about various products.
It is stated that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090D & RTX 5090 feature similar hardware configurations, which could mean anything such as the GPU being the same (but different SKU), and the clocks are also said to be the same in gaming. The RTX 5090 was previously said to feature an out-of-the-box clock speed of 2.9 GHz.
If true, then we would see up to 21760 cores and 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on the RTX 5090D and, just like last time, the pricing of both
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