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No surprises here: Nvidia kickstarted the ray tracing revolution and has invested heavily in the ecosystem, and the RTX 4090 suitably smashes all comers. We like the balance of speed and fidelity that DLSS Balanced provides. (Nvidia doesn’t allow DLSS to run on rival graphics cards, so the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT is represented by a zero in the DLSS measurements.) Running DLSS in Performance or Ultra Performance mode would result in even higher frame rates, but with potentially more image oddities. We’ve also included performance metrics with DLSS running in balanced mode on Nvidia GPUs to show the sort of full-stack ray tracing performance you’ll see in the real world. (If a game runs at 100fps with ray tracing off, and two different GPUs run the game with ray tracing on at 50fps and 25fps, for example, the former GPU offers better raw ray tracing chops).įinally, since ray tracing sends frame rates plummeting, pairing it with some sort of image upscaling technology (like Nvidia’s DLSS, AMD’s FSR 2, and Intel’s XeSS) is a necessity. The important thing to note here is how these ray-traced frame rates compare proportionally to the game running with RT off, which reveals how efficient each GPU’s raw ray tracing capabilities are. Next, we show performance with any and all available ray tracing effects active and set to ultra.


To reveal Lovelace’s prowess, the charts below show the raw performance of the RTX 4090, 3090, and Radeon RX 6900 XT in the selected games with ray tracing off, to get a baseline. Nvidia’s Lovelace upgrades claws the crown back.
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Intel’s debut Arc GPUs operate at a much lower level of raw power, being roughly $300 graphics cards, but their first crack at ray tracing efficiency managed to surpass the second-gen RT cores in Nvidia’s RTX 30-series. We’ll dig into DLSS 3 next, but first, we wanted to dig into the RTX 4090’s raw ray tracing performance. Let’s kick things off with a pair of ultra-popular esports games, and a tactical strategy game running on DX11. RTX 4090 gaming performance benchmarks Esports and older APIs We run each benchmark at least three times and list the average result for each test. We’ve also enabled temporal anti-aliasing (TAA) to push these cards to their limits. Each game is tested using its in-game benchmark, sanity checked by Nvidia’s FrameView tool, at the highest possible graphics presets unless otherwise noted, with VSync, frame rate caps, real-time ray tracing or DLSS effects, and FreeSync/G-Sync disabled, along with any other vendor-specific technologies like FidelityFX tools or Nvidia Reflex.
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We test a variety of games spanning various engines, genres, vendor sponsorships (Nvidia, AMD, and Intel), and graphics APIs (DirectX 9, 11, DX12, and Vulkan), to try to represent a full range of performance potential. In addition to turning on PCIe Resizable BAR by default, we’re also moving to a new set of games in our testing suite. Nvidia and AMD both released more powerful variants of those GPUs, in the form of the RTX 3090 Ti and Radeon RX 6950 XT, but we don’t have those graphics cards on-hand for direct comparison with new drivers. We’re comparing the $1,599 GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition against its direct predecessor, the $1,500 GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition, as well as AMD’s rival Radeon RX 6900 XT, which launched at $1,000 but provided similar performance to the 3090 in rasterized games.

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Nvidia also recommends turning on the optional “Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling” option in Windows to let the RTX 40-series stretch its legs to the fullest, so we’ve made that tweak as well. But there’s one new tweak for the start of this GPU generation: We’ll now test with PCIe Resizable BAR (also known as Smart Access Memory on Ryzen systems) active, as most modern gaming PCs released in the last four years support the performance-boosting feature, either natively or via a motherboard firmware update.
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We test graphics cards on a top-of-the-line AMD Ryzen 5900X PC used exclusively for benchmarking GPUs.
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Software and features remain a key strength for GeForce, especially in contrast to Intel’s spotty debut Arc drivers.īut enough talk. Of course, the GeForce RTX 4090 supports Nvidia’s killer software stack, from NVENC to Broadcast to Shadowplay to Nvidia Reflex (which is actually a core component of DLSS 3).
