NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 launches in China on August 12: 24GB VRAM, 600W TDP

NVIDIA is ramping to the launch of its new GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 graphics card in China, with the new flagship Blackwell gaming GPU hitting China on August 12.

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In new reports from Expreview and Benchlife, we're hearing that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 is coming to China and that AIB partners have been notified about the launch date as August 12. The new RTX 5090 D V2 will replace the RTX 5090 D as the latest gaming GPU from NVIDIA that is compliant under US export restrictions to China, and the third gaming graphics card tweaked for after the RTX 4090 D.

NVIDIA's new tweaked-for-China RTX 5090 D V2 uses the GB202-240 die versus the GB202-250 die on the RTX 5090 D, and the GB202-300 die used on the standard RTX 5090. The new RTX 5090 D V2 uses a newer PCB design -- the PG145 SKU 40 -- with changes made to the VRAM and GPU layout.

The new RTX 5090 D V2 features the same 21,760 CUDA cores as the RTX 5090 D, but drops down to a 24GB GDDR7 memory configuration on a 384-bit memory bus, representing a 25% drop in VRAM. There are no details yet on the clock speeds of the GDDR7 memory, but gaming performance will (mostly) not be an issue with bottlenecking.

We have the same 575W TGP on the RTX 5090 D V2, with custom AIB cards offering a 25W increase to 600W, meaning factory-overclocked models will also be available for gamers in China. However, with the new RTX 5090 D V2 only offering 24GB of GDDR7 versus the RTX 5090 D with its 32GB of GDDR7, we should (hopefully) expect to see a decent discount on pricing for gamers in China who are losing a huge chunk of VRAM.

Expreview reported: "According to relevant channels, NVIDIA has preliminarily determined the launch time of RTX 5090 D V2, which is 9 pm on August 12, 2025, but the pricing is not clear yet. In addition, it is reported that there is not much difference between the RTX 5090 D V2 and the RTX 5090 D in the game test".