China's customized version of RTX 4090D will be released today. Tensor specifications have been reduced, but game performance remains unchanged.

In October this year, Nvidia was banned from selling GeForce RTX 4090 in the Chinese market by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The company then created a China-specific variant of the RTX 4090 that would comply with the FTC's limits on AI inference performance while maintaining the same speeds as the regular RTX 4090 in games.

The resulting product is the RTX4090D. The AI ​​inference performance of this graphics card is significantly lower, which may be due to the lower number of Tensor cores or firmware-based performance limitations. The final product is similar to the LHR (Line Hash Rate) GPU that responded to the GPU shortage during the period of popular cryptocurrency mining.

This graphics card, which is only for the Chinese market, will be released today. In order to prevent this GPU from being modified into a regular RTX 4090, it may come with a different device ID and other obstacles to prevent the regular RTX 4090 graphics card BIOS from being ported over; the GPU overclocking is disabled, and the TGP is also reduced to 425W.