
The overclocking race is on as Tony Yu, General Manager of Asus China, reviewed the RTX 5090D in depth and gave us our first glimpse of its overclocking potential. Under liquid nitrogen and a handful of board modifications, the RTX 5090D successfully dethrone several top configurations across the 3DMark suite. Yu also captured beautiful die-shots of Samsung's 30 Gbps GDDR7 ICs and the GB202 chip powering the RTX 5090D, revealing the underlying Blackwell architecture.
The China-exclusive RTX 5090D has on-paper specifications similar to its global counterpart. However, Nvidia has imposed several artificial constraints to comply with US export restrictions and limit crypto-mining and AI performance at the driver level. As a result, the RTX 5090D is restricted to 2,375 AI TOPS (FP4), down from 3,352 on the base RTX 5090.