The allowed limit is 4,800, so the RTX 4090 is about 10% “too powerful.”
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but Nvidia will likely build in some wiggle room — to ensure overclocking as an example doesn’t become a problem. Assume a clock speed of 2.7 GHz and we get a maximum number of SMs of 108.
Like what is preventing them from just shipping 4090 cards downclocked to 2.4 Ghz, and then letting China figure out how to flash a 2.7Ghz BIOS onto the cards? I guess just Nvidia just doesn’t want to get in trouble with the US government?
Like what is preventing them from just shipping 4090 cards downclocked to 2.4 Ghz, and then letting China figure out how to flash a 2.7Ghz BIOS onto the cards? I guess just Nvidia just doesn’t want to get in trouble with the US government?