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@ 2023/12/30Chinese will get throttled RTX 4090D
Nvidia has chopped the performance of its GeForce RTX 4090 GPU by nearly 11 per cent, so it can flog it in China without breaking US sanctions.
The tech giant unveiled the RTX 4090D on its Chinese website and admitted it was a lot weaker than the model it launched in late 2022.
The card has just 14,592 CUDA cores compared to 16,384 on the versions sold elsewhere. Nvidia said the card's tensor core count was also cut from 512 to 456 on the 4090D.
Otherwise, the card is pretty much the same, with top speeds of 2.52 GHz, 24 GB of GDDR6x memory, and a massive 384-bit memory bus.
Nvidia has chopped the performance of its GeForce RTX 4090 GPU by nearly 11 per cent, so it can flog it in China without breaking US sanctions.
The tech giant unveiled the RTX 4090D on its Chinese website and admitted it was a lot weaker than the model it launched in late 2022.
The card has just 14,592 CUDA cores compared to 16,384 on the versions sold elsewhere. Nvidia said the card's tensor core count was also cut from 512 to 456 on the 4090D.
Otherwise, the card is pretty much the same, with top speeds of 2.52 GHz, 24 GB of GDDR6x memory, and a massive 384-bit memory bus.
