Nvidia’s RTX 6000D was never going to be a hero product. data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-reportedly-preparing-rtx-6000d-for-chinese-market-to-comply-with-u-s-export-controls-fabricated-on-tsmc-n4-featuring-gddr7-memory-capable-of-delivering-1-100-gb-s-of-bidirectional-bandwidth” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-reportedly-preparing-rtx-6000d-for-chinese-market-to-comply-with-u-s-export-controls-fabricated-on-tsmc-n4-featuring-gddr7-memory-capable-of-delivering-1-100-gb-s-of-bidirectional-bandwidth”>Built specifically for the Chinese market to navigate U.S. export restrictions, it has a constrained design: a GDDR-based Blackwell GPU with no NVLink, targeting AI inference instead of full-scale training.
Two procurement sources speaking to the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3325740/nvidia-sees-tepid-demand-new-rtx6000d-ai-chip-chinese-tech-firms-sources” data-url=”https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3325740/nvidia-sees-tepid-demand-new-rtx6000d-ai-chip-chinese-tech-firms-sources” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>South China Morning Post say that demand is tepid and the chip’s value proposition is “expensive for what it does.” And that’s before you factor in the uncomfortable comparison to Nvidia’s own…
