NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090D under a 'full sales ban' in China, no more RTX 5090D cards to be sold

NVIDIA's tweaked GeForce RTX 5090D has reportedly been impacted by new US export restrictions, and now under a "full sales ban" in China, with no more RTX 5090D cards to see the light of day in China.

In some new reports on Board Channels picked up by @HXL on X, US government regulations preventing NVIDIA from making faster and more advanced GPUs available in China saw the company tweaking its gaming and AI GPUs, releasing the flagship RTX 5090D based on the GB202 GPU and featuring the same 24GB of GDDR7 memory, but with hardware-level limitations on AI inference support, getting around regulatory requirements.

We had rumors from April 2025 that said AIB partners were told by NVIDIA to stop selling the RTX 5090D in China, with a new GPU ban expected, and it seems that is now here.

But now, NVIDIA is reportedly no longer able to sell the GeForce RTX 5090D in China, with the (translated) post on Board Channels reads: "The NVIDIA RTX 5090D series has been essentially finalized, but no GPUs will be available in Q2. This means the 5090D cannot be sold in the Chinese market, and board partners will be unable to receive GPU shipments".

"NVIDIA has effectively confirmed that orders for the RTX 5090D series will not be accepted during Q2. All previously placed orders for 5090D chips that have not yet been delivered have been temporarily canceled. In effect, the RTX 5090D is now officially under a full sales ban".

Once this new ban is in place, the fastest GPU sold in China from NVIDIA will be the GeForce RTX 5080, based on the GB203 GPU with 16GB of GDDR7 memory. NVIDIA was only recently slapped with a ban on its H20 AI GPUs from entering China, too.