Nvidia's RTX 4090 graphics card, which will hit stores in less than two weeks, has been spotted in new leaked benchmarks causing a bit of disappointment among some people.
The GPU was put to the test in the Geekbench CUDA test reported by Benchleaks on Twitter (discovered by Wccftech (Opens in a new tab), via VideoCardz (Opens in a new tab)).
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As always, let's remain skeptical and always keep in mind that counterfeiting could be in play, but the two reported scores for the RTX 4090 are 417,713 and 424,332, so basically around the 420,000 mark.
Based on Geekbench CUDA comparisons, this makes the RTX 4090 almost 80% faster than its predecessor, the 3090, and around 60% faster than the fastest Ampere board, the RTX 3090 Ti.
Note that the PC that Nvidia's flagship GPU was tested on had a Ryzen 9 7950X processor (on an X670E motherboard) and was equipped with 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, so the support distribution, for so to speak, it was solid in this case. (By the way, the 7950X managed an average boost of very close to 5,7 GHz through benchmarking.)
Analysis: Don't Jump Out and Judge Too Soon
Geekbench CUDA is of course a measure of heavy workloads (data centers), so business users will be more interested in seeing these results, not gamers. But it's still interesting for all parties to see the relative power (add seasoning, naturally) of the RTX 4090 versus the RTX 3090 in the first non-Nvidia benchmark.
Some think this is a good indicator of the kind of rough performance we'll get for standard games, i.e. pixelated, as opposed to ray tracing, the latter being Nvidia's primary focus for the marketing preview release before the RTX 4090 goes on sale. (Well, that and how much DLSS 3 will drastically increase performance, for games that support it anyway.)
Nvidia has said that the next-gen Lovelace GPUs will be able to double the rasterization performance over Ampere graphics cards, but that's a best-case scenario, and gains for many PC games may drop a bit below that, and as was mentioned perhaps in line with what we see here for these Geekbench CUDA runs.
We'll see, but really, we're not going to read too much into this leak; after all, it's just a test and not a commonly used metric either.
All in all, we have to reserve judgment for when we can fully assess the powers of the 4090 ourselves across a range of different games and, of course, software. (Remember, this GPU is really more for creative professionals who are willing to dig deep into their pockets to cover the exorbitant price, than it is for avid gamers, but the latter type of buyer, who needs to have the best GPU for gaming, certainly exists. , it's just a niche category).
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