- A nvidia RTX pro 6000 sweetened is still powerful enough to maintain the ambitions of the AI of China alive
- Nvidia’s bypass solution is not high, but it could still flood China data centers
- Slow performance export rules, but they cannot stop AI scaling parallelized by Chinese CSP
In response to the American export restrictions introduced in April 2025, Nvidia will prepare a special edition of its GPU RTX Pro 6000 for the Chinese market.
A report of Tendency Affirms that this new version will go from memory to high band width (HBM) to slower but more accessible GDDR7.
The switch will allow the chip to comply with new regulations that prohibit GPUs with a HBM level of memory bandwidth or advanced interconnection capacities, resulting in a reduced GPU, but not to a lack of power.
Not the best, but enough for a decent AI work
The RTX Pro 6000 is a powerful chip. Even after being watered down, Tendency estimates that its performance will be between the ancient L40s of Nvidia and the L20 China edition. This places the well in the GPU range capable of significant AI workloads.
What stimulates interest is not only availability, but capacity, even with degradation. Critics have stressed that a version cut off from a very powerful card is always extremely capable, especially if it is more affordable.
Consequently, Chinese cloud service providers (CSP) should evolve horizontally, buy more units and optimize for larger knots deployments.
Yes, this approach will be more expensive and will consume more power, but it is only a set of figures – CSPs will have to increase the investment of infrastructure and manage higher power requests. The drawback, of course, is that these bypass solutions are intrinsically ineffective.
Nevertheless, if the price per unit is correct, the aggregated performance could always meet, even exceed, current needs.
It may not be the fastest configuration in traditional terms, but in parallelized environments, the performance gap could shrink. That said, Chinese flea manufacturers like Huawei and Cambcon strive to fill the gap left by limited access to high -level NVIDIA GPUs.
If the special edition RTX Pro 6000 succeeds, it could delay the national adoption of local alternatives. If he fails, it could accelerate them.
Nvidia’s strategy can help navigate current American restrictions, but there is an open question if it will be sufficient in the long term.
A lower chip could always be one of the fastest GPUs on the market, and too powerful to ignore, especially when the line between conformity and capacity is so finely drawn.
