Nvidia RTX 4090 video cardwhich will hit the shelves in less than two weeks, has been spotted in fresh leaked tests that have left some people disappointed.
The GPU has been tested in the Geekbench CUDA test, as noted by Benchleaks on Twitter (this Wccftech (opens in a new tab) spotted, through Video card (opens in a new tab)).
[GB5 GPU] Unknown GPUCPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (16C 32T)Min/Max/Avg: 5549/5690/5685MHzCodename: RaphaelCPUID: A60F12 (AuthenticAMD)GPU: GeForce RTX 4090API: CUDAScore: 417713, +168.6% vs RTX 3https23.99GB: //t.co/BFyQ6acdRYOctober 1, 2022
As always, let’s remain skeptical and always keep in mind that a fake could be out there, but the two estimates reported for the RTX 4090 are 417,713 and 424,332, so basically around the 420,000 mark.
Based on the Geekbench CUDA benchmarks, this makes the RTX 4090 nearly 80% faster than its predecessor, the 3090, and about 60% faster than Ampere’s fastest card, the RTX 3090 Ti.
Note that the PC on which Nvidia’s flagship GPU was tested had Ryzen 9 7950X processor (in the X670E motherboard) and was equipped with 32 GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, so the supporting cast was strong in this case. (As a side note, the 7950X managed to achieve an average boost very close to 5.7GHz through benchmarking).
Analysis: Don’t jump to guns and judge too soon
Geekbench CUDA is of course a benchmark for heavy workloads (data center), so professional users will be more interested in viewing these results than gamers. But it’s still interesting for all parties to see the relative strength – seasoned, of course – of it RTX 4090 vs RTX 3090 in the first benchmark is not from Nvidia.
There are some who believe this is a good indication of what standard performance we’ll get for standard games – that is, in raster mode, as opposed to ray tracing, the latter of which was Nvidia’s main focus for pre-release marketing. RTX 4090 goes on sale. (Well, that’s how much DLSS 3 will improve performance in a huge way, for games that support it anyway).
Nvidia has said that next-gen Lovelace GPUs will be able to double the rasterization performance of Ampere graphics cards, but that’s a best-case scenario, and a gain for many Games for PC may well go a bit lower, and as mentioned, possibly in line with what we’re seeing here for these Geekbench CUDA runs.
We’ll see, but we’re not really going to read too much into this leak – after all, it’s just one test, and not a metric that’s usually relied upon.
All in all, we’ll have to reserve judgment as to when we’ll be able to fully appreciate the 4090’s capabilities on our own across a range of games and, of course, software. (Don’t forget that this GPU is really aimed more at creative professionals who are willing to dig deep into their pockets to cover the exorbitant price than at enthusiast gamers – but it’s the latter type of buyer who should have the best gaming GPUdefinitely exists, it’s just a niche category).
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