Tuesday, July 19th 2022
NVIDIA RTX 4090 "Ada" Scores Over 19000 in Time Spy Extreme, 66% Faster Than RTX 3090 Ti
NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce RTX 4090 "Ada" flagship graphics card allegedly scores over 19000 points in the 3DMark Time Spy Extreme synthetic benchmark, according to kopite7kimi, a reliable source with NVIDIA leaks. This would put its score around 66 percent above that of the current RTX 3090 Ti flagship. The RTX 4090 is expected to be based on the 5 nm AD102 silicon, with a rumored CUDA core count of 16,384. The higher IPC from the new architecture, coupled with higher clock speeds and power limits, could be contributing to this feat. Time Spy Extreme is a traditional DirectX 12 raster-only benchmark, with no ray traced elements. The Ada graphics architecture is expected to reduce the "cost" of ray tracing (versus raster-only rendering), although we're yet to see leaks of RTX performance, yet.
Sources:
kopite7kimi (Twitter), VideoCardz
96 Comments on NVIDIA RTX 4090 "Ada" Scores Over 19000 in Time Spy Extreme, 66% Faster Than RTX 3090 Ti
Most important is the performance per Watt, this card should offer this performance while consuming similar or lower power than the 3090 to be acceptable, otherwise it will follow the steps of Ampere and Turing in terms of mediocrity.
Well, it sounds plausible. :) But ...
On the other side:
1080ti (11.800m transistors) vs. 2080ti (18.600m transistors) = 19,0% faster (58% more transistors)
2080ti (18.600m transistors) vs. 3080ti (28.300m transistors) = 24,4% faster (52% more transistors)
So in reality performance increase will be around 25%, my bet.
That is beside the 8nm to 5 nm lithography advancement.
Samsung 8nm was holding Ampere back, Ada might max the architecture potential with TSMC.
Heh Marketing, Don't you just love it :)
You have 10735 cores in a 3090 Ti but 28.3 billion transistors.Same here. It's going out of hand with the power consumption for me.
When they will see? I guess when their revenues and products sold decline.
All you guys with 4k high refresh screens, you really think GPU power use is going to stop going up. If you want to run your games at that res, high refresh, get used to it or get a lower res screen.
I'm not interested in the behemoths that don't fit in standard ATX cases or work with the perfectly good ~800W PSUs that so many people own. Those flagship models always completely ignore efficiency and cost-effectiveness, almost to the level of obscenity.
I'll probably buy whatever falls in the 200-250W range and call it a day. As long as it has 12GB of VRAM or more and runs every single AAA game at 1440p I'm going to be perfectly happy to ignore sillier, faster, hungrier, hotter, more expensive cards.
Although price/performance on anything above 4080 will be bad like on the 3000 series, so maybe i'll stick to the 4080 for this generation as the 3080Ti was a kick in the balls even at MSRP.