Just watched
GamersNexus's review, and I have to say the thermal performance (for the power draw) is really nice.
The clean & elegant design (compared to the gamer'ish partner cards) is also a taker. Paired with the cheaper price, it's going to be
a blood bath for the partners, lol.
Also never noticed before there is a fan on each side, lol. Is that a 4090 uniqueness or will the lower models also get 2 fans?
About the benchmarks: why is the 4090 trailing behind all old gen cards at 1080p & 1440p res in games like
Battlefield 5,
Borderlands 3,
Diviniti Original Sin II,
Far Cry 6,
Halo Infinite or
Hitman 3? That's really odd!
Also if you exclude the 5-6 (out of the 25 tested) games the 4090 is massively outperforming the other cards, the performance gain isn't really that great. Just an observation, no hate boys.
Nice writeup, thanks. I can easily afford the 4090 or even several of them, but I simply will not pay $1600 for a video card. Not gonna happen. Especially for one that doesn't even have the correct cooling solution installed. A premium card like that should have a waterblock. Period.
So, cut that price in half and offer it with a FC waterblock and I'd buy one immediately. Otherwise I'm happy to wait for 2nd-hand market in a couple years.
Then go out &
just buy one! Or 2, or 3, ...
"The more you buy, the more you save." Jen-Hsun Huang
You need to support Nvidia (and their shareholders) in these desperate times. Listen to the preacher. Repeat 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.
Given our current
global economic situation (+the crypto mining crash), I wouldn't place a bet on it.
The 4090 will most likely go down in history as the
most rare "mainstream card". Might be a good idea to get it used down the road as an "collectable" for historical reasons, though. But knowing Nvidia, they will likely release a 4090ti, just to collect dem dollarinos from dem high rollers with small ePeens.
Testing this GPU with a 5800x was a bad move.
your review vs the rest, clearly shows a bottleneck at 1080p and 1440p vs other reviews with 7950x or 12900KS
while TPU shows an improvement vs 3090 of 20% at 1080p and 35% at 1440, others with better CPU like Igor's lab for example show improvements of around 60% for the same resolutions
Agree.
Gaming benchmarks should have been done with the
most potent gaming CPU. Which right now is either the 7950x, 12900KS or the 5800X3D (depending on the game).
But especially the 5800X3D would have been very interesting. A little preview of performance gains we could get from the upcomming AMD X3D models.
