NVIDIA has updated its official GeForce site for China, confirming that the GeForce RTX 4090 D, a new version of the company’s flagship gaming GPU that is tailored to comply with the latest U.S. export controls, is now officially available in China.
“NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D delivers a quantum leap in performance, efficiency, and AI-driven graphics,” reads a machine-translated description of the new Ada GPU that NVIDIA shared.
“Through it, you can experience high-performance games, the exquisite rendering brought by ray tracing technology in the virtual world, amazing work efficiency, and innovative creative methods. Powered by the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture and equipped with 24 GB of G6X video memory, this GPU delivers an exceptional experience for gamers and creators,” NVIDIA added.
The full specifications for the GeForce RTX 4090 D can be found here, but here’s a comparison of the two GPUs that was shared online, alluding to fewer CUDA Cores, fewer Tensor Cores, and other notable changes:
And here’s how the GeForce RTX 4090 D should perform with some of today’s most popular games versus the last-generation GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, according to NVIDIA:
“The Ada architecture can fully unleash the powerful advantages of ray tracing and simulate light characteristics in the real world,” NVIDIA noted. “With the powerful performance of the GeForce RTX 40 series and third-generation RT Core, you will experience stunning details in the virtual world that you have never experienced before.”
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D starts at 12,999 RMB, which would translate to around ~1,800 USD.