GeForce RTX 4090 Review, Nvidia's Stupid Fast GPU!

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Video Index:
00:00 - Welcome back to Hardware Unboxed
04:44 - Test System Specs
05:02 - Watch Dogs: Legion
05:54 - Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction
06:33 - Far Cry 6
07:17 - Assassin's Creed Valhalla
08:03 - Hunt: Showdown
09:00 - The Outer Worlds
09:38 - Hitman 3
10:18 - Horizon Zero Dawn
10:55 - F1 2021 [DX12]
11:43 - Cyberpunk 2077
12:17 - Dying Light 2 Stay Human
12:39 - Halo Infinite
13:08 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider [DX12]
13:58 - 13 Game Average [1440p]
14:41 - 13 Game Average [4K]
15:16 - 13 Game Average [1080p]
15:48 - F1 22 [Ray Tracing + DLSS]
17:14 - Watch Dogs: Legion [Ray Tracing + DLSS]
18:14 - Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy [Ray Tracing + DLSS]
19:05 - Dying Light 2 Stay Human [Ray Tracing + DLSS]
20:01 - Cyberpunk 2077 [Ray Tracing + DLSS]
20:40 - DLSS 3
21:50 - Total System Power Consumption
22:45 - Power Consumption [Locked FPS]
23:21 - Cooling Performance
24:33 - Overclocking
25:01 - Cost Per Frame, MSRP [1440p]
25:46 - Cost Per Frame, MSRP [4K]
26:14 - Cost Per Frame, Newegg [1440p]
26:34 - Cost Per Frame, Newegg [4K]
27:12 - Final Thoughts

GeForce RTX 4090 Review, Nvidia's Stupid Fast GPU!

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[Hardwareunboxed]

Imagine if we knew 9 months ago just how trash the pricing would be for the rest of the GeForce 40 series.

[VzlaLeo]

Nice to see such a nicely priced budget product for us poor gamers
EDIT: Obviously this comment was a joke
EDIT2: Amazon, Bestbuy selling XFX RX 6600 for $230 today October 12. Newegg sells the Gygabyte RX 6650 XT for $265

[romankozlovskiy]

Imagine getting a 3090ti and then it getting deystroyed by a 4090 that’s cheaper 9 months later

[paulshardware]

Beautiful and well executed review Steve! Hope you're keeping up with this launch cycle ok 😅 it has to end eventually right?

[battmarn]

Holy shit that performance is crazy
Can't wait to buy one second hand in 6 years for a fifth of the price

[MiLethal]

Insane performance for the few people that can afford, 4k raytracing finally means something.

[DrearierSpider]

No amount of performance can change the fact that Nvidia is pricing the average person out of the GPU market. It's fine that the top end product is stupid expensive (though I wish we got a cut down AD102 based product for a reasonable price similar to the RTX 3080 being a cut down GA102 die for $700). But when a cut down AD104 die is a $900 product, they've lost the script. And I'm not sure how well a $1600, 450W GPU is going to sell when the entire world is in a stagflationary recession with a global energy crisis.

[marloiv]

Insane to see so much Content being pumped out. Especially with so much going on this month.
Great Review and great work :)!

[darrellid]

Those 4K benchmarks are absurd. Thanks for all that you do.

[brh]

"I can enjoy gaming almost as much with a GPU that costs four times less"
I feel this. I love my 6600XT, it's been great the past year I've used it.

[anotherhuman]

My first car was stupidly fast, cost less than a 4090 with the same running costs 😂 😅

[KennyChong]

Definitely next level unboxing of hardware right here! I think it will be interesting to see a watt per frame comparison in either another video or in future GPU review videos. With all the talk of power usage and electricity prices being expensive, that might also be another factor potential buyers may want to consider before purchasing a new GPU.

[Yurgen_S]

Wow, that's impressive. A shame these kind of gains won't be seen in lower end products, not even the 4080 and (the real) 4070.
Pricing is still a mess.

[Rudolfik]

It looked so good in the benchmarks that for a minute I forgot I can't afford it 🤣. Can't wait to see 4070 being 10% faster than 3070

[johndc]

It would be nice to have h264/h265 video editing performance included in the standard benchmarks for GPU's. 3d compute/rendering benchmarks are also good but having a video editing(playback/export) benchmark would be a good addition to standard GPU reviews.

[AnttiPW]

That's brutal. Didn't expect this. It's still way out of my price range, but still it's freaking impressive.

[OfSheikah]

thank you Hardware Unboxed for the thorough testing as usual

definitely squeezed a lot of performance data of this gpu you guys

[mrbean]

Wonderful job Steve.
For the Watdogs RT performance; you mention that the DLSS bottleneck is 109 FPS.
Wouldn't it be more correct to say the CPU bottleneck with RT enabled only allows for 109 FPS max. As we have seen from many RT titles. RT increases the demand on the CPU as well as the GPU.
I would love to see how the 7700X + 4090 perform in these RT CPU bottlenecked scenarios.

[yobbn]

Even this great performance won't convince me to spend $1600USD.

[iseeyou]

It's pretty crazy that leaks from over a year ago suggested it'd be ~80% faster than the 3090, and it turns out that it almost is (possibly could be if all CPU bottlenecking was removed). The same leaks also said RDNA 3 would be faster, thus I'm more excited for that launch than paying the obscene Ngreedia tax.