GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
Nvidia’s monstrous GeForce RTX 4090 delivers luxuriously fast frame rates and futuristic features, but DLSS 3’s AI speed boost may be the real star. It’s a behemoth of a GPU that draws a lot of power, but Nvidia’s sublime Founders Edition design remains cool, quiet, and eye-catching.
-- As reviewed by PCWorld
Product details
- 16,384 NVIDIA CUDA Cores
- Supports 4K 120Hz HDR, 8K 60Hz HDR, and Variable Refresh Rate as specified in HDMI 2.1a
- New Streaming Multiprocessors: Up to 2x performance and power efficiency
- Fourth-Gen Tensor Cores: Up to 2x AI performance
- Third-Gen RT Cores: Up to 2x ray tracing performance
- AI-Accelerated Performance: NVIDIA DLSS 3
- Game-Winning Responsiveness: NVIDIA Reflex low-latency platform
PROS
+ Extremely fast frame rates
+ DLSS 3 speeds up performance by orders of magnitude
+ Excellent ray tracing performance
+ Dual AV1 encoders
+ Cool, quiet, and sublime Founders Edition design
CONS
- Bundled 12VHPWR adapter is ugly
- Very high power draw
- Thick, long GPU may not fit in all PC cases
- Extremely high price
- So fast, it's often bottlenecked below 4K resolution
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By PCWorld on October 10, 2022
Nvidia’s monstrous GeForce RTX 4090 delivers luxuriously fast frame rates and futuristic features, but DLSS 3’s AI speed boost may be the real star. It’s a behemoth of a GPU that draws a lot of power, but Nvidia’s sublime Founders Edition design remains cool, quiet, and eye-catching.
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