Chinese online gamers and hobbyist artificial intelligence (AI) developers have been dealt a setback as Beijing banned the import of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090D V2, a graphics card specifically engineered for the Chinese market to comply with United States export rules, dealing another blow to the country’s technology community already caught in escalating chip-war tensions.
The RTX 5090D V2 was added to Beijing’s list of banned commodities during last week’s summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to a Financial Times
report. Built on Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture, the chip had been cleared for sale in the Chinese market last August.
