Export restrictions force Galax to build cutdown RTX 5090D V2 HoF — gaming performance is, fortunately, nearly identical to original 5090D HoF

Thanks to U.S export regulations, Galax has created a new version of its flagship HoF version featuring Nvidia’s latest iteration of its Chinese-exclusive and export-compliant RTX 5090, the RTX 5090D V2. A Bilibili content creator obtained Galax’s new graphics card and ran it through several benchmarks. Spoiler alert: the card performs on par with the vanilla RTX 5090D it replaces.

The content creator tested the Galax RTX 5090D V2 HoF in several benchmarks and games, including: 3DMark TimeSpy, TimeSpy Extreme, Operation Delta, Eternal Calamity, CS2, PUBG, Cyberpunk 2077, Black Myth Wukong, Monster Hunter: Wildlands, and Red Dead Redemption 2. Benchmarks of the RTX 5090D V2 HoF were compared side by side with an RTX 5090D, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 Ti.

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In 3DMark TimeSpy and TimeSpy Extreme, the performance difference between the 5090D V2 and the 5090D was literally indistinguishable, with a performance margin under 0.1%. In TimeSpy, the V2 variant achieved a benchmark score of 49,285 points, and the vanilla 5090D 48,922 points. In TimeSpy Extreme, the RTX 5090D V2 achieved a score of 25,479 points, and the vanilla variant 25,690 points.

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Games were much the same, in Black Myth: Wukong, Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Monster Hunter: Wildlands, frame rate variance between the RTX 5090D V2 and vanilla 5090D was less than 4%. In fact, overclocking the 5090D V2 led to some of the aforementioned titles providing a larger performance gap compared to the RTX 5090D V2 at stock clocks compared to the vanilla 5090D.