NVIDIA launches RTX 5090 D V2 in China for 16,499 yuan, up to $1400 cheaper than the RTX 5090

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 with a tweaked design and just 24GB of GDDR7 (regular RTX 5090 packs 32GB) has arrived to the shores of China, priced at the same price as the RTX 5090 D.

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The new RTX 5090 D V2 is mostly unchanged for the most part across the board from the RTX 5090 D non-V2 variant, but the new RTX 5090 D V2 has a radically changed VRAM capacity of 24GB GDDR7 compared to 32GB on the RTX 5090 D and RTX 5090 graphics cards. The tweaks are for NVIDIA to meet US export restrictions to China, hence the new memory configuration.

NVIDIA's official website now lists the RTX 5090 D V2 and all of its GPU specifications, with the GB202-240 die and its 21,760 CUDA cores, 4th Gen Ray Tracing Cores, 5th Gen Tensor Cores, with 2375 AI TOPs of performance. This is compared to the RTX 5090 with 3352 AI TOPs.

The RTX 5090 ships with the full 32GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit memory bus capable of 1792GB/sec of memory bandwidth, while the new RTX 5090 D V2 ships with 24GB of GDDR7 on a smaller 384-bit memory bus, with a slower 1344GB/sec memory bandwidth. This complies with US export rules that bans any card over 1.4GBSec of memory bandwidth.

The new RTX 5090 D V2 has the same GPU clocks with a base 2.01GHz and boost of 2.41GHz, with AIBs free to release custom RTX 5090 D V2 graphics card at those frequencies, or tweak them with OC editions and beefier cards. The new RTX 5090 D V2 keeps its 575W TDP so it's not restricted with power, and retains all of NVIDIA's RTX technologies like the RTX 5090 and RTX 5090 D, just without as much, or as fast memory.

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The official MSRP for the GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 is 16,499 yuan which works out to around $2295, which is the same launch price as the RTX 5090 D, but the card (like all high-end GPU releases) can't be found at MSRP because of huge demand. There are some reports that the new RTX 5090 D V2 is available at MSRP at multiple retailers in China.

Hong Kong retailer Faroll lists a few different RTX 5090 D V2 graphics cards, which are listed for 16,499 and 16,999 yuan, which converts to around $2200 USD, with custom GIGABYTE and Inno3D solutions. The GIGABYTE RTX 5090 GAMING OC with 32GB GDDR7 costs 22,499 yuan, with prices ranging up to 25,999 yuan for an MSI RTX 5090 VENTUS 3X OC.

The cheapest full RTX 5090 costs $2867 or so USD in China, while the cheapest RTX 5090 D V2 costs around $2100, a savings of $850+ USD for gimped VRAM. In gaming, you wouldn't notice the difference unless you were flooding the VRAM as much as possible and needed more than 24GB, but that applies to very few.