Nvidia’s upcoming China-focused RTX 5090D is purportedly locked down, preventing users from using the Blackwell GPU for specific workloads. A user on the Chiphell forums reports that after “3 seconds,” the RTX 5090D locks itself, preventing users from running particular workloads, overclocking the GPU, adjusting power limit parameters, and even using the GPU in multi-GPU setups.
The RTX “D-series” (for Dragon) is a custom Nvidia GPU explicitly tailored to meet U.S. export regulations based…
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