NVIDIA's new RTX 5090 D V2 for gamers in China costs $830 less than RTX 5090 D

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 graphics card launches in China on August 12, with reports that the new made-for-China variant will be $830 cheaper than the RTX 5090 D.

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The $380 price reduction is a good thing to see, but gamers in China will be losing 12GB of VRAM as the RTX 5090 D V2 comes with 24GB of GDDR7 compared to the RTX 5090 D which packs the full 32GB of GDDR7 memory. The RTX 5090 D was already cut down from the RTX 5090, but the new RTX 5090 D V2 is cut down again.

When it comes to availability, it seems that the RTX 5090 D is mostly sold out and it is the last batch on Chinese shores. According to a post on Chiphell, "sthuasheng" writes: "now the flagship stores of various platforms are on sale, basically 19999 (yuan), the same as H20, the 5090D sold this time are the batch of goods produced before the new regulations came out, because the ban on sales was forced to become inventory after the new regulations came out".

The post continues: "and now the United States ZF has given a special approval, allowing NV to sell this batch of inventory, so now the 5090D is also on sale, unlike the H20, the 5090D inventory is not much, it is estimated that it will be sold out soon, and the 5090D V2 will be officially released in early August. The price of this product has not yet been determined, but it is not expected to be much cheaper than the 5090D".

The new GeForce 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.