It’s being reported that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 would possibly include a China-exclusive variant referred to as the RTX 5090D, and that it will likely be arriving in January 2025. If true, this rumor not solely means that Nvidia is engaged on a follow-up to the China-exclusive RTX 4090D, however that it will probably be out in 2025 reasonably than 2024.
The RTX 5090 is predicted to be the flagship graphics card within the upcoming Nvidia Blackwell vary of gaming GPUs. It appears a nailed-on certainty to be the very best graphics card you should buy when it arrives, however there’s nonetheless quite a bit we don’t but know concerning the new card.
The brand new RTX 5090D rumor comes from common X (previously Twitter) tech leaker, @hongxing2020. Having beforehand leaked a Black Fable Wukong RTX 4080 (not that the official existence of this card has but been confirmed), their newest social media musing merely states “Subsequent gen 90D prepared. 2025.1.”
Whereas that appears pretty cryptic, the leaker’s historical past of affiliation with Nvidia GPU leaks makes the implications fairly clear. The suggestion is that there’s an RTX 5000 collection (next-gen) card with a 90D product identify variant. On condition that Nvidia solely has one earlier product with that type of identify – the RTX 4090D – it’s a good assumption we’re taking a look at an RTX 5090D.
The RTX 4090D was a response by Nvidia to restrictions that the US authorities positioned on the corporate with reference to exporting the very quickest chips out there to China, primarily in an effort to forestall China’s rising supremacy in AI and different rising tech markets. The RTX 4090D had 11% fewer CUDA cores than the usual RTX 4090 and its TDP was dropped by 50W, though some overclocked variants quickly bought across the latter restriction.
This reasonably mild method to limiting the RTX 4090 was presumably a results of Nvidia having a restricted time window to engineer a brand new model of its flagship card that might circumvent the export restrictions. As such, it’s attainable that the RTX 5090D will probably be much more restricted, with Nvidia having had a for much longer interval to consider the right way to restrict these China-bound GPUs.
As for the “2025.1” line, this clearly refers back to the card being anticipated to launch within the first month of 2025. Whereas that will appear a great distance off, it could possibly be the case that Nvidia is holding again the launch of this restricted variant to be able to make the largest splash attainable with its primary RTX 5090 launch. Nevertheless, it’s also attainable that the RTX 5090 launch date could possibly be pushed again to early subsequent 12 months, even when most rumors thus far recommend it’s going to arrive sooner or later in 2024.
For extra particulars of what to anticipate from Nvidia’s upcoming flagship GPU, try these tales on the anticipated RTX 5090 clock velocity, the rumored RTX 5090 energy restrict, and our total RTX 5090 information for a summation of the whole lot we all know thus far.
