Nvidia RTX 4090 Founders Edition Review

1. Introduction2. Meet the RTX 4090 Founders Edition3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Assassin's Creed Valhalla7. Cyberpunk 20778. Days Gone9. Dying Light 210. Far Cry 611. Forza Horizon 512. God of War13. Horizon Zero Dawn14. Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered15. Red Dead Redemption 216. Resident Evil Village17. Total War: Warhammer III18. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)19. Cost Per Frame Analysis20. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207721. Ray Tracing: Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered22. Ray Tracing: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition23. Ray Tracing: Resident Evil Village24. Clock Speed25. GPU Temperatures26. Acoustics27. Noise-Normalised Temperatures28. Power Draw: 1080p29. Power Draw: 1440p30. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)31. Performance per Watt: 1080p32. Performance per Watt: 1440p33. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)34. Total System Power Draw35. Overclocking36. Closing Thoughts37. View All Pages

Here we test Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered, with the in-game ray tracing effects set to Very High, Object Range set to 6.

Next up is Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered, and interestingly enough the scaling is quite poor here with ray tracing enabled. At 1440p, the 4090 is only 26% faster than the 3090 Ti, despite being 44% faster with RT turned off. It turns out we're CPU limited, with the 4090 only seeing about 74% GPU utilisation in our test sequence when RT is enabled.

At 4K we do become GPU-bound, and the performance scaling is much more impressive. With the RTX 4090 pushing 113FPS, the Ada flagship is now 74% ahead of the 3090 Ti, while it holds a 96% advantage over the RTX 3090.

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