According to news on May 21, Huang Renxun rushed to catch the last bus to visit China, but as soon as he left, he discovered thatThe RTX 5090D v2 specially supplied for the Chinese market has been banned!The RTX 5090 could not be sold to China, so special (yan) (ge) versions of the RTX 5090D and RTX 5090D v2 appeared one after another, locking the computing power and cutting the video memory, but the price is still high.
According to the latest revelations, the logistics company has been informed by China Customs that RTX 5090D v2 will no longer have an import pass, and all goods will not be able to enter the Chinese market. There is no official announcement yet, and there won't be one as usual.
This ban was initiated by China, which caught NVIDIA completely off guard. In fact,The RTX 5090D V2 itself is a deformed product of the United States’ increased layers of chip control over China.In August 2025, after the original RTX 5090D was included in the embargo list in the United States, NVIDIA urgently launched this second-downgraded special version, and the official recommended retail price remained unchanged at 16,499 yuan.
In order to meet US compliance requirements, its video memory capacity was significantly reduced from 32GB to 24GB, the video memory bit width was reduced from 512-bit to 384-bit, and the bandwidth was directly reduced by 25%. Only the number and frequency of CUDA cores remained unchanged. Although the measured game performance is basically the same as the old version, it is essentially a differentiated product that has been repeatedly "castrated".
Last week, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang temporarily joined Trump's delegation to China. The outside world had generally expected that the chip trade impasse between China and the United States would ease, especially that the sales restrictions on H200 AI chips to China were expected to be relaxed. But the final result was completely opposite to expectations. Not only did the H200 chip, which was approved for export at the end of 2025, still not receive the Chinese procurement license, but this gaming graphics card for the consumer market was also blocked from the country. Industry insiders generally believe thatThis ban is not directly related to AI computing power control, because RTX 5090DV2’s AI computing power has been actively locked by NVIDIA. This move is more like sending a clear signal that it will no longer accept downgraded products with discriminatory treatment in the United States. At the same time, it will firmly promote the substitution of domestic chips and encourage local companies to build independent and controllable technology systems.
Now, the impact has appeared. The RTX 5090 in the Korean market has quickly begun to increase in price collectively. Presumably they are worried that Chinese players will go overseas to purchase goods.
inAsus TUF RTX 5090 OC was still 7.59 million won yesterday, but today it has risen to 7.99 million won (approximately RMB 36,200). Astral RTX 5090 White has risen from 7.79 million won to 8.19 million won (approximately RMB 37,100) in one day, an increase of more than 5%.
In addition, the RTX 5090 Night God back panel costs 8.19 million won, and the Night God water-cooled version costs 8.39 million won. I guess this is just the beginning...
