By Jon Martindale
Publication Date: 2025-11-25 17:19:00
An Nvidia RTX 6000D workstation graphics card has popped up on Geekbench with fewer CUDA cores and less memory than the flagship RTX Pro 6000. This follows the GB20 and RTX 5090D launches, which featured less powerful hardware for China, according to VideoCardz.
Nvidia’s relationship with China has been fractious for some time. Ongoing trade wars and tariff uncertainty have lead China to refocus its efforts on subsidizing local industry and cutting back on buying Nvidia hardware. Nvidia, meanwhile, has had to comply with US demands to only sell weaker hardware to China, but does China want second best anymore? With a smuggling industry and a growing domestic chip pipeline, there are some questions about whether Chinese companies would have much interest in a stripped-down RTX 6000D.
The card comes with 84GB of GDDR7 and a 448-bit memory interface, which is 12GB and 64-bits narrower than the RTX Pro 6000. It also sports 156 compute units (Streaming Multiprocessors in Nvidia talk). With 128 CUDA cores in each of those, that works out to 19,968 CUDA cores for this card. That’s 4,096 fewer CUDA cores, or a 17% cut to CUDA core totals.
Not all Chinese-first GPUs are workstations. Some fun gaming designs also made their way to market. (Credit: Gainward)
That means the RTX 6000D is a cut-down GB202 GPU used in the standard RTX Pro 6000 cards, which makes sense considering what Nvidia is looking to build. It can use defective GPUs to craft this very…
