GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT· REL 2022

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA · Ada Lovelace · RTX 40MSRP $1599

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is NVIDIA’s flagship-tier Ada Lovelace card aimed at 4K gaming with ray tracing. It scores 100/100 on our 1440p gaming index. 24 GB of VRAM comfortably handles modern texture budgets. Ray-tracing performance is genuinely usable, not just a checkbox. Supports DLSS 3 for upscaling.

100/100

1440p gaming index

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CORE SPECS

VRAM
24 GB
VRAM BANDWIDTH
1008 GB/s
BASE CLOCK
2235 MHz
BOOST CLOCK
2520 MHz
TDP
450 W
FP32
82.6 TFLOPS
RAY TRACING TIER
5 / 5
DLSS / FSR
DLSS 3, Frame Generation

PERFORMANCE INDEX

1080p gaming
100/100
1440p gaming
100/100
4K gaming
100/100
Productivity
100/100
AI / compute
100/100

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