09 Sep, 2024

Nvidia reportedly creating new RTX 4090 D ‘Dragon’ GPU to comply with US export regulations for China

Nvidia’s best graphics card for gaming, the RTX 4090 was recently struck with an export ban preventing the GPU from being sold to China. In response, Nvidia is reportedly developing a China-exclusive variant dubbed the RTX 4090 D (for “Dragon”) — that’s according to WCCFTech. The RTX 4090 D will supposedly feature lower performance and […]

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Nvidia RTX 4090 cards are reportedly being hoarded for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers, which could inevitably drive prices up

The Nvidia RTX 4090 currently reigns as the king of consumer graphics cards, sitting atop our GPU benchmarks hierarchy. It’s one of the best graphics cards for gaming, AI, and other work — except RTX 4090 prices have been increasing ever since the cards were put on the U.S. export controls list a few months […]

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Nvidia AI and HPC GPU sales reportedly approached half a million units in Q3 thanks to Meta, Facebook

Having earned $14.5 billion on datacenter hardware in the third quarter of fiscal 2024, Nvidia clearly sold a boatload of its H100 GPUs for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC). Omdia says that Nvidia sold nearly half a million A100 and H100 GPUs, and demand for these products is so high that the lead time of […]

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Dell reportedly restricts exports of AMD’s fastest gaming GPUs to China — Radeon RX 7900 XTX, RX 7900, Pro W7900 purportedly listed as sanctioned tech

Dell has reportedly issued a Sales Advisory document to ensure that its sales personnel does not sell AMD’s latest Radeon RX 7900-series gaming graphics cards as well as Instinct artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) GPUs to China and 22 other countries in compliance with the latest U.S. export rules. However, our quick check of […]

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