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GeForce RTX 4090 Founders edition review

NVIDIA unveiled their much-anticipated Series 4000 graphics cards, beginning with the GeForce RTX 4090 founder edition. The new graphics card provides greater performance, more extensive raytracing fe... Introduction

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 review: the best way to waste $1,600 | Digital Trends

If you have $1,600 just laying around, the RTX 4090 is a game-changing GPU. Most people don't, which is where things get tricky for the RTX 4090.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition Review - Impressive Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition offers huge gains over its predecessors. It's the first graphics card to get you 4K 60 FPS with ray tracing enabled, and upscaling disabled. Do you prefer 120 FPS instead of 60? Just turn on DLSS 3.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition Review

Nvidia's immense GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition is an unbelievably powerful tour de force debut of the "Ada Lovelace" architecture. The only question: Do you really need this much power?

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RTX 4090 review: Spend at least $1,599 for Nvidia’s biggest bargain in years

Our review also dives deeply into DLSS 3—and how it may affect future Nvidia GPUs.

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[jpiniero]

AMD might actually take the raster performance crown and if they can match Ampere for the RT fps drop that 16-20% increase in raster will be enough for it to outright win there too.

This isn't the highest Ada card though. The 4090 Ti is probably another 20-30% assuming it's at 600 W.

 

[Timorous]

This isn't the highest Ada card though. The 4090 Ti is probably another 20-30% assuming it's at 600 W.

10% more shaders and 15% or so higher clocks is going to struggle to deliver 30% more performance.

 

[jpiniero]

10% more shaders and 15% or so higher clocks is going to struggle to deliver 30% more performance.

I still think it's memory bottlenecked. The extra cache and faster GDDR6X will make a difference.

 

[DiogoDX]

At 1440p with no RT, it's going to be a bit CPU limited which will drop the power consumption. Running 4K, I would expect the power consumption to increase though it's unlikely to hit the GN numbers. Just speculation, but for maxed out 4K numbers, it's probably just about in the middle, meaning around 400W. Derbauer showed 422W in Time Spy Extreme but average gaming will probably be slightly lower than that.

Card is CPU limited on 1440 in many cases. Computerbase also tested this.

Doom Eternal: 1440p = 356W , 4K = 432W

 

[Mopetar]

Frankly you should only be buying something like this if you want to game at 4K with Ultra settings or RT. It's not really worth it for anything less than that.

This thing is beefy enough that you don't even need to use DLSS to get acceptable FPS in a lot of games.

 

[fleshconsumed]

My feelings for nvidia aside, 4090 is a beast of a card. 4K gaming with ultra settings and RT enabled at 60fps or higher. Significantly faster than 3090ti while having same or lower power consumption. And fairly quiet too with fans spinning at 1600rpm. If you ignore MSRP and performance/dollar this is super impressive card.

However, taking MSRP and performance/dollar into account, this is on par with 30xx/6900 series current pricing. Sure, it's 70-100% faster, but it's also proportionately more expensive. We are once again in a situation where we don't really get improvement in performance/dollar metric. Want 2x performance? Just pay 2x more. As a budget gamer this makes me sad and worried for the future of gaming. Hoping things will get better for budget/midrange gamers over the next few years. At the very least I'd love to see similar performance uplift in the budget/midrange while keeping MSRP mostly same as previous gen, but again, I have serious doubts about it happening.

 

[CakeMonster]

The CPU bottlenecks are certainly the most interesting part of the reviews.

I'm also awaiting more in depth research of DLSS3, but considering latency and possible artifacts I'd lean toward using DLSS2 on a lower setting instead for now.

 

[CakeMonster]

As a budget gamer this makes me sad and worried for the future of gaming. Hoping things will get better for budget/midrange gamers over the next few years.

It's coming, its just progressively more delayed, with Ampere NV started delaying the lower cards even more to earn more money, and the Lovelace lower cards will arrive, eventuall, with good value. The problem is that people who upgraded every X years will have to add time to their upgrade schedule along with the inflation, making for a huge and frustrating gap in the upgrading schedule.

 

[fleshconsumed]

It's coming, its just progressively more delayed, with Ampere NV started delaying the lower cards even more to earn more money, and the Lovelace lower cards will arrive, eventuall, with good value. The problem is that people who upgraded every X years will have to add time to their upgrade schedule along with the inflation, making for a huge and frustrating gap in the upgrading schedule.

I know that lower tier cards are coming, but 4080/16 is $1200 and 4080/12 is $900 which is still way more than I would ever want to spend on a videocard. Prior to 2017 my ideal budget was $200-300. I sort of bumped it up to $400-500 by getting 3070FE, but unless AMD really surprises us, there is a strong possibility that $400-500 will only get me N33 and I'm not paying that much for an entry level video card.

 

[Dribble]

The CPU bottlenecks are certainly the most interesting part of the reviews.

I'm also awaiting more in depth research of DLSS3, but considering latency and possible artifacts I'd lean toward using DLSS2 on a lower setting instead for now.

wccftech did a test, they get very low latency numbers. Not sure if I believe them, but I do think the jury is still out on whether latency is a problem.

 

[nicalandia]

The CPU bottlenecks are certainly the most interesting part of the reviews.

So Modern Top of the Line CPUs are bottlenecking this GPU?

 

[badb0y]

The card is an absolute monster but damn I don’t want to give nVidia my money lol.

 

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and der8auer exploring the power fundamentals.

 

[Tup3x]

Looks like the next fight is going to revolve around driver efficiency.

 

[biostud]

I still don't understand how it is x2.78 times transistors, that runs with ~40-45% higher boost clocks compared to a 3090Ti, and does not achieve double frame rates under a normal 4K situation.

 

[n0x1ous]

I still don't understand how it is x2.78 times transistors, that runs with ~40-45% higher boost clocks compared to a 3090Ti, and does not achieve double frame rates under a normal 4K situation.

CPU limits are a thing at 4k now for the first time. I think we will see 2x + as more UE5 games and higher end RTX games get released

 

[jpiniero]

I still don't understand how it is x2.78 times transistors, that runs with ~40-45% higher boost clocks compared to a 3090Ti, and does not achieve double frame rates under a normal 4K situation.

It has the same memory bandwidth.

 

[n0x1ous]

It has the same memory bandwidth.

on paper yeah, but in practice that huge L2 cache is effectively making the bandwidth higher.

 

[Timorous]

It has the same memory bandwidth.

It has a lot of L2 to make up for it. 6900XT managed 2x the 5700XT with the same bandwidth.

 

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2x and over 2x improvement. the more resolution you give it the more it extends its lead

 

[biostud]

on paper yeah, but in practice that huge L2 cache is effectively making the bandwidth higher.

And I guess that is where some of the transistors went.

 

[Dave3000]

I'm waiting for a further 3090 Ti FE price drop but based on a review I read on the 4090, the 4090 consumes less power than the 3090 Ti. I have a Seasonic GX 850W power supply and a Ryzen 5800x CPU and I plan on upgrading to either a 7800X3D or a 13700K shortly after they release. Is it most likely that I might need to buy a new power supply if I get a 3090 Ti but won't have to if I get the 4090? I figure if I'm going to have to buy a new power supply for the 3090 Ti and no further price drop on the 3090 Ti that I might as well just upgrade to the 4090 instead and continue using my current power supply if this is the case.

 

[n0x1ous]

I'm waiting for a further 3090 Ti FE price drop but based on a review I read on the 4090, the 4090 consumes less power than the 3090 Ti. I have a Seasonic GX 850W power supply. Is it most likely that I might need to buy a new power supply if I get a 3090 Ti but won't have to if I get the 4090? I figure if I'm going to have to buy a new power supply for the 3090 Ti and no further price drop on the 3090 that I might as well just upgrade to the 4090 instead and not buy a new power supply if this is the case.

both have 450w TDP so your 850w should be fine with either. Appropriate adapters to 8pin pci-e are included in both cards boxes

 

[moonbogg]

Enough performance here to allow some amazing and efficient mid range cards later on. Could be good times if the competition is there. If it's not there, then oh well. Spend the money I guess?

 

[Saylick]

Idk if y'all agree with me here, but I am of the belief that 4K @ 144 Hz w/ VRR is pretty much all anyone will need for the foreseeable future, i.e. you get diminishing returns at higher resolution and refresh rates. The flagship GPUs of this generation will pretty much get us there for non-RT heavy games, so it seems like buying one of them this time around will likely last you far longer than previous generations where we didn't quite hit the same level of diminishing returns w.r.t. monitor tech. Should we expect that GPUs focus mainly on RT improvements rather than raster performance from here on out?