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ASUS GeForce RTX 4090 STRIX OC

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The ASUS GeForce RTX 4090 STRIX OC is the company's flagship graphics card. It comes with a huge cooler that's all metal, even on the cooler shroud. In terms of performance our review confirms that this is the best air cooler available and out of the box performance is great too, thanks to a default power limit of 500 W.

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Oof. $2000.

Hey ASUS, suck my silicon nib.
 

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You are massively bottlenecked by used platform. The 5800X is absolutely unable to properly drive this card even at 4K that's why your results and differences between previous generation are significantly lower than other reviewers with the 12900K or 5800X3D.
RTX 4090 + 13900K coming soon, running right now, don't you worry, the differences (at 4K) will be very small

Waiting for the TUF review!
No plans for a TUF review
 
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Can't we group reviews for the same product/different brand together somehow? So they don't take up several pages of the front page? This has been bugging me forever.
 
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table shows MSI instead of ASUS
 
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Can't we group reviews for the same product/different brand together somehow? So they don't take up several pages of the front page? This has been bugging me forever.
If that's not possible, it would be still nice if W1zzard, or one of the mods, opened a common discussion thread titled "GeForce RTX 4090 General Discussion" as soon as the reviews are out. The comments will be scattered across 7 threads now, and many of them will be about the 4090 in general.
 
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Performance over FE is minimal except for cooling and noise levels. Not worth a $400 premium on an overpriced GPU card.
 

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Seems all models perform exactly the same. Last-gen differences were very close, but temps had a bit more of variation, and hot-spot was worringly high.
This time, ALL is basically equal, so what's the excuse for Asus demanding such a stupid premium for the Strixx?
It performs like the Gigabyte OC or the FE basically, on temps/fps...
 
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What could possibly justify the $400 increase over FE that's already priced terribly? A few degrees lower temperatures? No. Few more FPS due to higher clocks? No. ROG STRIX written on the card? Yes!
 
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Oof. $2000.

Hey ASUS, suck my silicon nib.
Should probably point the nib at JHH ~

Jensen Gpu GIF by NVIDIA GeForce
 
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@W1zzard I just want to say thank you for the exhaustive work that you do in these reviews. You are definitely underpaid for your incredible work and the amount of detail that you put into your reviews. I have trusted your methodology and numbers for 17 years now and you have my utmost respect.

I say to Nvidia and AMD: Release something actually good and ground breaking in the $300 range and I’ll be impressed.
 
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You are massively bottlenecked by used platform. The 5800X is absolutely unable to properly drive this card even at 4K that's why your results and differences between previous generation are significantly lower than other reviewers with the 12900K or 5800X3D.

You do know that at 4K the CPU speed(s) is quite less of an impact to for example 720p or 1080p right?

There's virtually no difference at such resolutions.
 
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For making Asus charge $250 more than the competing liquid cooled card?
For preventing AIBs from doing anything special with their versions of the cards. If Nvidia wasn't so draconian with their requirements about modifications, we'd still see creative things coming out of the AIBs for the money that would likely produce something more than a 2% increase in frames.
 
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This card is $2800 before tax and when you add tax it will be over $3000. Too bad Multi GPU support has been killed by the industry as 2 6800XTs would cost you about 1/2 of $3000 to buy 2 cards and if AMD did crossfire like Polaris (basically default in the Driver) and blow this card out of the water with a comparable power draw.
 
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As you can see on The PCB back they use 4 POS-Caps instead of MLCC capacitors. The FE use only MLCCs. With RTX 3080 and 3090 cards there were problems with those mixes at higher boost frequencies which result in crashes. The FE seems a more stable build according these problems.
 
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