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

For our manual overclocking tests, we used MSI Afterburner. Our best results are as below.

With a 260MHz offset, the RTX 4090 saw its average operating clock speed increase from 2683MHz at stock, up to 2971MHz. That was measured over a 30-minute stress test in Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, but in other 4K workloads, we did see 3015MHz on the core.

The benefits of this overclock varied slightly depending on the workload. Time Spy Extreme and Cyberpunk 2077 only saw 7% and 5% improvements, respectively, but Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered saw FPS increase by 10%, while Resident Evil Village netted 8% gains. Either way, we're not talking massive differences, but we look forward to seeing what can be achieved with a third-party card.

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