The Nvidia RTX 4090 is the new flagship graphics card from Nvidia that is set to dominate high-end gaming PCs and top-10 charts for the mid-term future. However, now that our RTX 4090 review is complete, the conversation turns to how well the RTX 4090 stacks up against the existing kings of the hill: the RTX 3090 and RTX 3090 Ti.
Can these next-gen cards hold their own, or is the RTX 4090 too dominant?
Glasses
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Nvidia released the (almost) complete specs for the RTX 4090 at its GTC keynote, introducing it alongside the RTX 4080 for the first time.
| RTX 4090 | RTX 3090Ti | RTX 3090 | |
| Architecture | ada lovelace | Amp | Amp |
| GPUs | AD102 | GA102 | GA102 |
| process node | 5nm TSMC | 8nm Samsung | 8nm Samsung |
| CUDA cores | 16,384 | 10,752 | 10,496 |
| RT core | 144 3rd generation | 84 | 82 |
| tensor nuclei | 576 4th generation | 336 | 328 |
| basic class | 2235MHz | 1560MHz | 1395MHz |
| turn up the clock | 2520MHz | 1860MHz | 1695MHz |
| Memory | 24GB GDDR6X | 24GB GDD6X | 24GB GDDR6X |
| memory speed | 21Gb/s | 21Gb/s | 19.5Gbps |
| memory bus width | 384 bit | 384 bit | 384 bit |
| Broadband | 1018 GBps | 1018 GBps | 936GB/s |
| TDP | 450W | 450W | 350W |
With this generation of GPUs, we are once again seeing great advances in CUDA cores, as well as additional next-generation RT and Tensor cores that help deliver faster ray tracing and better DLSS. Clock speeds have also increased significantly, which will help deliver the big performance improvements Nvidia promised.
It seems that the added efficiency of the new architecture in the new 5nm process has allowed Nvidia to increase core counts and clock speeds dramatically while maintaining the same power requirements as the RTX 3090 Ti. That’s still a great TDP, but it’s certainly more bearable than some of the rumored totals that have been doing the rounds in recent weeks.
Memory configurations remain largely the same as the RTX 3090 Ti, although they are still a vast improvement over the RTX 3090.
Pricing and Edition
The RTX 3090 went on sale in September 2020, shortly after the flagship RTX 3080. It was initially priced at $1,500, but it has fluctuated wildly over the past two years, occasionally rising to over $3,000. As of this writing, you can buy it for around $900 at most retailers.
The RTX 3090 Ti launched in March 2022 with a debut price of $2,000. The scarcity at the time meant it could cost $4,000 in some cases, but prices soon dropped and today it can be found for as little as $1,000.
The RTX 4090 first debuted at Nvidia’s GTC keynote on September 20. It was officially released on October 12, priced at $1,599. That’s a big drop from the starting price of the 3090 Ti, which shows that Nvidia isn’t drastically increasing costs across the board, but it is raising them from the original price of the RTX 3090, and with RTX 4080 cards going up, this generation will continue to be more expensive than the previous one. ; significantly in some cases.
Performance
It was always clear that the Nvidia RTX 4090 would be faster than the RTX 3090 and 3090 Ti. The question was: how much?
Nvidia didn’t go into detail with proprietary benchmarks in its GTC showcase, but we’ve had a lot of time with the new card and put it to the test to find out how well it stacks up against the last-gen kings from Nvidia and AMD. .
Immediately after testing in 3DMark, it became clear that the RTX 4090 is a completely different beast. The RTX 3000 and RX 6000 GPUs are almost right on Time Spy, but the RTX 4090 destroys them all. The same goes for Port Royal, where the RTX 4090 offers truly nice frame rates and a corresponding score that shows how much better it is at ray tracing than any card before it.
Across the full range of gaming benchmarks, the RTX 4090 continued to far outperform every other GPU we’ve put it up against, including venerable flagships from just a few weeks ago. The RTX 3090 and RTX 3090 Ti are still standout cards, especially when it comes to 4K gaming, but the RTX 4090 trumps both of them.
For more per-game test results, be sure to dive into our full RTX 4090 review.
The graph above shows that the RTX 4090 averages over 50% more frames per second than the RTX 3090 Ti across our range of games tested. Most impressive is the performance boost we saw in 4K on the ever-so-demanding cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing on. There, the RTX 4090 was the only card to manage more than 30 frames per second (fps) in the low 1%, ensuring a lag-free gaming experience.
This is with DLSS disabled, so you can expect much better performance than all Nvidia cards tested with that setting turned on, but this shows the raw capabilities of the card without all the technical wizardry Nvidia has pulled off in recent years.
Overall, the performance of the RTX 4090 is incredibly impressive, and it is undoubtedly the fastest GPU ever made. However, that’s not the two to four times performance that Nvidia claimed in its original report.
Characteristics
Like the 3090 Ti and 3090 before it, the RTX 4090 supports ray tracing and DLSS. Plus, thanks to more RT and Tensor cores and next-gen hardware, compared to the previous generation, you see a huge jump in performance when one or both are enabled. Nvidia talked about its new DLSS 3 algorithm in GTC, showing that it can lead to a huge performance boost when enabled. This is a feature exclusive to the RTX 4000 series, so you’ll need a next-gen card to take advantage of it. However, DLSS3 must be added to games separately, so like previous versions of DLSS, its impact will be limited at first.
The RTX 4090 can also take advantage of DLSS 1 and DLSS 2 much better than its predecessors, so whether you’re playing the latest DLSS 3 games or some of the older ones with an older version of the updater, you’ll see some great wins with the RTX. 4090.
Is the RTX 4090 a waste of money?
The RTX 4090 is hands-down the fastest graphics card ever made, and considering the huge performance boost, it’s actually more cost-effective in dollar-per-frame terms than the RTX 3090 and 3090 Ti, despite being significantly more expensive. . However, the question remains whether you need all that extra performance.
If you want to play games in 4K, you definitely can with the RTX 3090, which you can find now for less than $900. The RTX 3090 Ti is even available for around $1000. Considering that the RTX 4090 costs over 50% more and all it will let you do is play the same games at the same resolution but at a higher frame rate. high, it is not necessarily easy to recommend.
If you have $1,600 to spend and want the best graphics card money can buy, then the RTX 4090 is what you need. But for just about everyone else, there’s a more cost-effective GPU you can buy.
Now all eyes are on what AMD has planned with its next generation RDNA 3 GPU to see what effect it has on top performance dynamics.
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Source: newstars.edu.vn