Nvidia's RTX 4090 graphics card, the new flagship of the Lovelace generation, witnessed its first leaked benchmark prompting an interesting range of responses.
The 3DMark result provided by famous leaker Kopite7kimi on Twitter shows the supposed performance (have that salt shaker handy) of the RTX 4090 in the Time Spy Extreme test.
As you can see, the next-generation flagship GPU achieves a graphics score of just over 19 in the benchmark. What does it mean? Well, overall it's more or less as expected based on recent rumours, although some people are disappointed with the result on Twitter (and elsewhere).
Let's break down exactly why that might be the case below, and what we think the score indicates, bearing in mind that this is just a synthetic benchmark, and the first one that was leaked, so it's a very narrow perspective on the game. RTX 4090 potential.
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That tally of 19,000 compares to the base RTX 3090 (Founders Edition) scoring 9,955 when we compared the latter on Time Spy Extreme during our review. So some simple math shows that the RTX 4090 appears to be 90% faster than the RTX 3090 (perhaps a little more given Kopite7kimi says the score could be a little over 19,000).
More recently, in the rumor mill, we've heard quite a bit of the prediction that the RTX 4090 will be twice as fast as its flagship predecessor. The problem with some of the slight disappointment with the reveal of this leaked benchmark largely revolves around that expectation, and more specifically, some of the hope harbored earlier in the rumor cycle that the RTX 4090 might even deliver. a performance jump of more than 2.5x. or more.
We never found expectations realistic, and nearly doubling performance is a huge step forward, let's not forget. In fact, a 90% increase for rasterization (non-ray tracing) over the RTX 3090 is actually quite a jump, when you put that in perspective versus the jump the RTX 2080 Ti gave you over the RTX 3090. It even did , that was a 42% increase.
So that's actually a very impressive feat, if the leak is accurate, and also remember that we may still see better performance from the finished RTX 4090 (with final drivers etc.). Although the true test for Lovelace's new flagship is with real gaming benchmarks, not synthetic ones of course, though the latter are still a useful indicator of respective performance levels.
Other rumors about the RTX 4090 remain the same, namely that it will be the first Lovelace GPU for Nvidia, possibly in October, and that the GPU will consume around 450W, which is not really a surprise given this increase in performance. . . Clock speeds should reach 2,5 GHz or even a bit higher, up to 2,7 GHz or even 2,8 GHz (certainly with third-party cards with advanced cooling solutions).
We're talking about traditional rasterization performance here, of course, and the ray tracing improvements could be even more substantial; in fact, it is rumored that they will be. In short, the RTX 4090 is ready to be a graphics card, probably with a pretty hefty price tag, especially if Nvidia still needs to help weed out excess high-end RTX 3000 stock after Lovelace's flagship release. .
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