Rumors of a significantly downgraded RTX 5090D are emerging, suggesting that the card will now feature less VRAM than before. Newer RTX 5090D Model will Reportedly Arrive with 8 GB Less VRAM; MANLI Says the GPU will Start Shipping After July NVIDIA's cut-down RTX 5090D edition for China is getting a massive memory downgrade as per the latest report. At this point, it should be no surprise, since the US has banned the existing GeForce RTX 5090D as it doesn't abide by the new export policy. As per the confirmation of an NVIDIA board partner, the upcoming RTX 5090D will have just 24 GB VRAM capacity, down from 32 GB. This was confirmed by MANLI in a chat (via @harukaze5719), where the representative informed a user about the change. A similar report recently suggested the same, indicating the new RTX 5090D will share specs with the RTX PRO 5000 GPU and will have only 24 GB GDDR7 memory through a 384-bit memory bus. If that's true, then the memory bandwidth will stay lower than 1.4 TB/s, which is what the US govt wants NVIDIA to abide by for China. Credit: Weibo.com This will significantly downgrade the RTX 5090D, which is identical in almost all specifications to the full-fledged RTX 5090 GPU. The newer RTX 5090D is supposedly also getting a big downgrade in core count as well and is rumored to bring just 14,080 CUDA cores compared to 21,760 cores. This will reduce the gaming and productivity performance of the RTX 5090D drastically, but keep in mind that this is yet to be confirmed by NVIDIA or its board partners. The newer GeForce RTX 5090D will reportedly start shipping at the end of July or start in August. This marks the end of the original RTX 5090D, which was discontinued in the second quarter. Later, NVIDIA is rumored to release a newer RTX 50 Blackwell GPU. It will be either the RTX 5080 Super or RTX 5080 Ti, and supposedly features 24 GB of memory as well. News Source: Weibo Deal of the Day