In order to be sold in the Chinese market, the RTX4090 was forced to shrink to the RTX4090D. The CUDA cores, Tensor cores, RT light tracing cores, and texture units were reduced from 16384, 512, 128, and 512 to 14592, 456, 114, and 456 respectively. The video memory remained at 21GHz24GBGDDR6X. The core base frequency is slightly increased to 2280MHz, the acceleration frequency is maintained at 2520MHz, and the power consumption of the entire card is reduced from 450W to 425W.
The price still starts at 12,999 yuan, but there is no public version.
Friendly media Chaoneng.com recently tested a GALAXY RTX4090D Metal Master.Overall, 4K raster, 4K light pursuit, and DLSS game performance are on average about 5.5%, 5.8%, and 5.0% lower than the RTX4090, respectively. The gap is not very big.
The loss in productivity and creative performance is about 6%, which is acceptable.
As for power consumption, at least this model is just over 400W.
Overall, the performance loss of RTX4090D is 5-6%, which is basically consistent with the official claim. This is true for both games and creations. It is much smaller than expected, and it can still be used for AI creation.
Although the price still starts at 12,999 yuan, which is hard to accept, it is still much better than the outrageously priced RTX4090, and it is still the best graphics card that domestic players can buy.