Cut-down chips get a big boost
US sanctions on China that banned Nvidia's fastest gaming GPU might be irrelevant thanks to overclocking its slightly slower replacement back to original levels of performance.
However, Asus's new ROG Strix model of the RTX 4090D shows that this power limit isn't set in stone and can actually be adjusted, according to a source in China. Per a Google translated version of the review,"the TGP power consumption can be liberated from 100 percent 425W to the highest 141 percent 600W," a 41 percent boost.
If you've been keeping score, you might notice that this level of performance is actually on par with the regular 4090, if not better. Granted, we're talking about single digit percentage points, but these small numbers are the difference between the 4090 being banned and the 4090D being legal.
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