NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition

[thunderingroar]

Holy cpu bottleneck, pls update test system to 13th gen or 3D zen4 when they come out

 

[LFaWolf]

Less than 15% improvements vs 3090ti on 1080p and if you don't care about that useless RT bs. Amazing! So much power draw and wasted transistors on RT and tensor cores... Btw the article would attract more ppl if it included CSGO and Overwatch 2.

Amazing to see this GPU with 78 BILLION transistors has less FPS vs a 3080 (less than 28b transistors) on some games that do not use RT and on 1080p all the while using up to 600 WATTS!!! This has to be a new record of stupidity.

4090 and game at 1080p? Okay…

 

[GerKNG]

a 45% improvement over an already insane card is unremarkable?

yes.
nothing special for a big node change.
the jump from a 7800GTX to the 8800GTX was 2x and depending on the workload even more.
and it didn't cost 2500€...

 

[Trompochi]

Nice card, but I'm still very happy with my old 2080 Ti for 1440p.

 

[PapaTaipei]

4090 and game at 1080p? Okay…

What is your problem? Yes, if you play competitive at 400-600 fps.

 

[HTC]

Sure, but it is not out yet, is it?

No, it isn't.

However, a "halo" product is supposed to be the "top of the line", and the 4090 IS NOT the "top of the line", regardless of it having been launched or not, because we know it's already been announced: were this not the case, then you'd have a point.

 

[solarmystic]

Nice card, but I'm still very happy with my old 2080 Ti for 1440p.

Same here, but on a 1080p144Hz monitor , i'd expect this card to be enough for next 3-4 years at that resolution.

 

[ARF]

45% performance improvement is really bad. And no, it's not the CPU. If you think that a faster CPU will make a big difference, don't expect it.

Also, it's not really the time for 8K gaming just yet, between 4K and 8K there are other mid res, such as 5K, 6K and 7K

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This chart was made by a youtuber using nVidia's claimed performance of the card: the Y axis is how much % faster the card was VS previous X80 card, so the GTX 480 was around 54% faster than the GTX 280, and so on and so forth.

@W1zzard : any chance you could do something similar to this of the X90 class of GPUs?

lol, 4080-16 is the right last entry, not the rebadged RTX 4070 (""4080-12"" meh!).

 

[gridracedriver]

+ 50% perf / watt on the 6950XT, AMD just needs a 350watt (-100watt) card to match this 4090 at least in Raster

https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-founders-edition/images/energy-efficiency.png

We will see if AMD will have pushed in RT too or not, minimum they have to do 2x on rdna2

 

[bhappy]

I wonder how much the 5800X is bottlenecking the 4k performance of this card.

 

[Dirt Chip]

I'm horrified by the physical size of this GPU, and it's the smallest of the bunch..
Maybe the cooler is of the finest quality and performing remarkably but just seeing that brick of a thing you can tell it's unbalanced product- just too big for the purpose it serve. The 3rd party coming tomorrow will be just huge abominations.

We need a new metric: preformance per m^3 (volume) to factor the (un-parallel) increase in physical size, compare to previous gen.

 

[HTC]

lol, 4080-16 is the right last entry, not the rebadged RTX 4070 (""4080-12"" meh!).

Take it up with nVidia: they're the ones that decided to make TWO versions of the 4080, one of which CLEARLY WORSE than the other

 

[ARF]

Dear Lord

 

[LFaWolf]

No, it isn't.

However, a "halo" product is supposed to be the "top of the line", and the 4090 IS NOT the "top of the line", regardless of it having been launched or not, because we know it's already been announced: were this not the case, then you'd have a point.

Uh, when and where was 4090 ti announced?

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

Holy cpu bottleneck, pls update test system to 13th gen or 3D zen4 when they come out

Competitive players are at 1080p on 24in monitors that do 240 or 360hz and they do not enable gsync/freesync. Many of them don't have to pay for their stuff either.

 

[DemonicRyzen666]

I'm horrified by the physical size of this GPU, and it's the smallest of the bunch..
Maybe the cooler is of the finest quality and performing remarkably but just seeing that brick of a thing you can tell it's unbalanced product- just too big for the purpose it serve. The 3rd party coming tomorrow will be just huge abominations.

We need a new metric: preformance per m^3 (volume) to factor the (un-parallel) increase in physical size, compare to previous gen.

metric: preformance per mm^2 along with preformance per watt pre mm^2 averaged

 

[ARF]

+ 50% perf / watt on the 6950XT, AMD just needs a 350watt (-100watt) card to match this 4090 at least in Raster

https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-founders-edition/images/energy-efficiency.png

We will see if AMD will have pushed in RT too or not, minimum they have to do 2x on rdna2

Yes, the good news today is that AMD has a chance to be very very competitive. Can't wait for the presentation next month!

 

[R0H1T]

Uh, when and where was 4090 ti announced?

It's planned for sure!

NVIDIA RTX Titan Ada: Four-slot and full AD102 graphics card shelved after melting PSUs

Reportedly, NVIDIA was developing an even more powerful version of the GeForce RTX 4090. Billed as the Titan Ada or the RTX 4090 Ti, the graphics card is thought to be a whopping four slots thick and requires twin 16-pin power connectors. Supposedly, NVIDIA has ceased development though, with...

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[defaultluser]

Very fast but at more than twice the price of the 3090 it isn't impressive.

yeah, but identical launch day prices

 

[HTC]

Uh, when and where was 4090 ti announced?

Ooooops: my bad.

I was using this, taken from tom's hardware:

But this is a rumor, rather than something announced.

That said, i seriously doubt nVidia won't release a Ti version of the 4090: they're likely waiting for AMD to launch their cards AND THEN use the 4090 Ti to counter AMD's best.

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

It's planned for sure!

NVIDIA RTX Titan Ada: Four-slot and full AD102 graphics card shelved after melting PSUs

Reportedly, NVIDIA was developing an even more powerful version of the GeForce RTX 4090. Billed as the Titan Ada or the RTX 4090 Ti, the graphics card is thought to be a whopping four slots thick and requires twin 16-pin power connectors. Supposedly, NVIDIA has ceased development though, with...

www.notebookcheck.net

Shelved after melting PSUs....

 

[W1zzard]

I wonder how much the 5800X is bottlenecking the 4k performance of this card.

Compare it to 1080p FPS.
Same number? Bottleneck (Borderlands 3, DoS II)
Lower number? No bottleneck

 

[outpt]

Very good review. Thanks for taking the time to process so much data. The newer chips should be tested at sometime as they should be much stronger.

 

[LFaWolf]

Ooooops: my bad.

I was using this, taken from tom's hardware:

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But this is a rumor, rather than something announced.

That said, i seriously doubt nVidia won't release a Ti version of the 4090: they're likely waiting for AMD to launch their cards AND THEN use the 4090 Ti to counter AMD's best.

Therefore, at this moment, the 4090 is the halo card, just like when the 3090 was released, the 3090 was the halo card that moment.

Of course they will release a 4090 ti at a later time. The 4090 is not a fully enabled chip.

 

[nguyen]

Compare it to 1080p FPS. Same number? Bottleneck, lower number? No bottleneck

5800X + 16GB RAM are simply not enough to not-bottleneck the 4090 at 4K, the Ray Tracing results show how much further 4090 can stretch its leg without CPU+RAM bottlenecking.