Looks like Zotac did a great job of producing the worst 4090 of the batch reviewed today. Certainly not worth the extra $100 over the Founders Edition.
I know right lol but it's actually more! At microcenter it was the only 4090 left at 840pm and it was $1820 and the FE was $1599.99 so close... $120 but definitely not worth it.
The gigabyte liquid cooled 4090 was $1699.99.
When I see the performance gains and their creation of DLSS3 (which can be done on older cards in software quite easily) all I can think about is how freaked out they are over RDNA3 which should match the 4090 rasterization performance, match or beat the 3090ti in RT performance and have hardware for accelerated RT & FSR3 but the kicker will be it's lower cost, higher headroom for overclocking and if people are smart they would upgrade to one of AMD's cards instead, especially since most people are on 1080p and 1440p.
That doesn't even take into account that and is holding back their highest end card for when PCIE Gen 5 adoption is higher... So probably around June/July. Then they have to contend with RDNA4 which has something... Special in store for nVidia...
Good times are here again! We haven't seen competition like this since like 2002. Both CPU & GPU markets are showing amazing competition and it's only going to get more fierce.
My god id love to buy a EVGA 7095xt FTW3 Ultra Gaming lol. Since the 1080ti I've had every FTW3 Ultra Gaming xx80 ti. I have a 450 watt bios from EVGA on my 3080ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming. It's maxes out at 430 though but close enough and it will lock at boost + 70 mhz and never thermal throttle.
Oh one more thing... Racing games and flight Sims aren't good testing material for DLSS3. You want something that has center screen fast movement. Spiderman, Cyberpunk with 3rd person mod and sword combat, stuff like that is the real challenge for DLSS3.