After a lot of hype, the Nvidia RTX 4090 Performance Review is here. This is the fastest GPU in the world, with 24GB VRAM!
After waiting a long time and speculating, the Nvidia RTX 4090 finally arrived in the PC gaming market. This latest GPU from Nvidia is a successor to their current flagship and is currently the fastest GPU on the planet. With significant changes in design, specs, etc., from the last generation RTX 3090 and the RTX 3090Ti series cards, gamers are now more curious and excited about this GPU.
Like every gamer’s curiosity, we were looking forward to analysing this GPU. So just after dropping into the PC gaming market like an atomic bomb, we managed to get a founder edition of this GPU on our hands to review this. We deeply analyzed this card from A to Z to see how much Nvidia has enhanced itself by providing top-end GPUs to gamers over the last generation RTX 3000 Series.
So without further delay, let’s check out the all-new Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU Performance Review.
Nvidia RTX 4090 Specifications
Here are the details of the electronics architecture of the latest top-end quality Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU.
| GPU Variant | AD102-300-A1 |
| Generation | Geforce 40 |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace |
| Base Clock | 2235 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2520 MHz |
| Video Memory | 24 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1325 MHz with 21.2 Gbps effective |
| Memory Type | GDDR6X |
| Memory Bus | 384 bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 1018 GB/s |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 X 16 |
| DirectX | v12.2 Ultimate |
| Dimension | 336 x 140 x 61 mm |
| TDP | 450 W |
| Suggested PSU | 850 W |
| Power Connector | 1 x 16 pin |
Nvidia RTX 4090 Price and Availability
Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 GPU is available in the worldwide electronics market and all major online and offline retailers with a starting price tag of $1599. But this Graphics card’s price may vary from country to country.
Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 Design
This Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 is a behemoth of a graphics card with a triple-slot design. When users install this on their motherboard, it blocks at most minuscule 2 GPU card slots and almost the 3rd one. This time, Nvidia manufactured this GPU by attaching two massive heatsinks. Surely now you need at least an entire ATX motherboard to insert it and a separate solid GPU bracket or holder for support.
The heatsink and two cooling fans are now even more massive. Not only a big motherboard but also you now need a larger Cabinet to fit this in as it is taking up a significant amount of space inside your cabinet and blocking the sufficient area for air passing. So from this, we can say that the rumours about the size of this card were correct.
Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 Noise and Thermals
We tested the RTX 4090 GPU to see how it can manage or handle the thermal and noise section. And we get a good result by running Furmark and PortRoyal software. We get some outcomes which we have listed below for you.
| Normal Temperature | 69°C for port royal 71°C for furmark |
| The hottest spot on GPU recorded | 78°C for port royal 80°C for furmark |
| AVG Fan RPM | 45.4 for port royal 47 for furmark |
| Mosfet R4 | 62°C for port royal 63.9°C for furmark |
Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 Performance – Test setup details
Here are the details of the hardware we used to review the Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 Performance.
| CPU | Core i9 12900K from INTEL |
| MOTHERBOARD | Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master |
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition |
| MEMORY | Kingston 32 GB DDR5 5200MHz RAM |
| PSU | EVGA 1600W 80plus Gold Certified Fully Modular |
| STORAGE | 2 x WD M.2 SSD PCIe Express 3.0 1TB |
| CPU COOLER | CORSAIR iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX Liquid CPU Cooler |
| OPERATING SYSTEM | Microsoft Windows 11 64bit with the latest update patch |
Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 Rendering Performance
Here are the details of the Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 Performance based on benchmarking software
| DirectX 12 | 126 frames/sec |
| GPU compute | 31484 ops/sec |
| Average G3D Mark | 35873 |
| CUDA Score | 424332 |
| Geekbench 5 | 424.3k |
| PugetBench for DaVinci resolve v0.92.3 | 3100 (2 GPUs) |
| PugetBench for premiere pro v0.95.3 | 1472 |
| Pugetbench for after effects v0.95.2 | 1323 |
| Unreal Engine 4.26 | 92.1 |
| V-Ray 5.02.00 | 11188 (2 GPUs) |
| OctaneBench 2020.1.5 | 2577 |
| Redshift | 84 |
| Blender 3.3.0 | 12427 |
Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 GPU Gaming Performance
Here are the details of the Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 GPU Gaming FPS Benchmark Performance. All of the games were set to 4K resolution in ultra-high settings.
| Game Name | Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 GPU Gaming FPS Benchmark |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 121 fps avg |
| God of War | 127 fps avg |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 77 fps avg |
| Dying Light 2 | 119 fps avg |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 167 fps avg |
| CsGo | 481 fps avg |
| Marvel’s SpiderMan | 114 fps avg |
| Hitman 3 | 165 fps avg |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 139 fps avg |
Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 Performance – Final Verdict
PROS
- Fastest and Strongest GPU ever
- Massive changes over the RTX 3090 series
- Latest FPS booting DLSS3 technology
- Massive Graphics Engine
- Super 4K gaming performance
- Truly overcome all previous high-end GPU models
- No compromisation in performance
CONS
- 450W of constant power supply demand results in a higher electricity bill
- Very Huge, which blocks almost an extra 2 GPU blocks
- We need a Bigger cabinet case for airflow
- Very very expensive/costly
- DLSS3 is slower than expected
That’s all, folks!
Alapan, Editor at Xombied and Techuda, is a biomechanical Engineer education-wise. But he wanted to go ahead with his life and pursue his career as both Gaming and Tech Reviewer. He is occasionally invited to host, plan and execute Gaming events with multiple brands. Apart from gaming, he loves playing guitar and singing along to the music.