RTX 4090 vs RTX 3090 Ti: see comparison between GPUs

 

 

The new generation of RTX cards arrives october 12, but we already have information about GPUs with Ada Lovelace architecture. With a suggested price of $1599.00, it's worth checking out how the GeForce RTX 4090 compared to the RTX 3090 Ti, to see if the performance jump justifies the investment.

It is important to note that, so far, only a few internal tests have been presented during Jensen Huang's presentation on the 20th. Thus, the results, although impressive, do not necessarily reflect the actual conditions of use of the plates.

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RTX 4090 vs RTX 3090 Ti specifications:

The silicon of the RTX 40 family is produced by TSMC in a 5 nm process, considerably smaller than the 8 nm chips of the past generation. In addition, NVIDIA has already confirmed that the RTX 4090 base will have 16,384 CUDA cores, i know a thousand more than the RTX 3090 Ti.

Although there is no confirmation, rumors based on engineering models of the new plates suggest that they should have 512 Tensor cores, responsible for the Artificial Intelligence process, and 128 Ray-Tracing cores. 

                         RTX 4090    vs    RTX 3090 Ti 

Architecture: Ada Lovelace       Ampere

               GPU:         AD102     GA102

         Process:     5 nm TSMC         8 nm  Samsung

 CUDA Cores:       16,384                 10,752

       RT Cores:     128 (rumor)          84

Tensor Cores:     512 (rumor)         336

     Clock Base:     2.23 GHz            1.67 GHz

Clock in Boost:    2.52 GHz           1.86 GHz

          Memory:   24 GB GDDR6X    24 GB GDDR6X

   Memory Bus:     384-bit                  384-bit 

                    TDP:    450 W                   450 W

Suggested Power:  850 W                   850 W

In addition, the frequencies of the new GPUs are also much higher than those of the enthusiastic board of the past generation. Even without official confirmation of the number of Tensor and RT cores, the GeForce RTX 4090 project is generally much more ambitious than the RTX 3090 Ti.

Ada Lovelace architecture has more than twice the performance of Ampere boards with the same power consumption. Source: NVIDIA 

One point that is striking, however, is that despite the heavier specifications, both the thermal design (TDP) and the recommended power supply of the system are the same for both plates.

Preliminary comparisons:

NVIDIA has unveiled on its official channel the first gameplay trailer for Overwatch 2 using the new GPUs and the result impresses. With the game set to QuadHD (1440p), the card remained constant above 360 FPS, reaching peaks of 500 frames per second.

During one of the GTC conferences, Jensen Huang talked about how advances in Artificial Intelligence are crucial to improving graphics in games, and was even able to create hyper-realistic scenarios, even in older games.

In addition to the quality jump, according to the company's tests, the GeForce RTX 4090 is two to four times faster than the 3090 Ti. Of course, this result is due not only to technical specifications, but mainly because of new embedded technologies.

NVIDIA's internal testing puts RTX 4090 as up to 4x faster than RTX 3090 Ti. Source:NVIDIA 

DLSS 3.0 : 

One of the most significant innovations of GeFroce RTX 40 GPUs is fourth generation Tensor cores. To date, the new generation is the only one with DLSS 3.0 support. Updating this technology relies on improved AI processing to create even more frames accurately.

New generation of Tensor cores adds sequential 4k frames and optical accelerators to IA-aided frame creation equations Source:NVIDIA 

Until then, technology considered only 1080p images and motion vectors to create more frames. With DLSS 3.0, sequential frames in 4k also enter the equation, and an optical system of flow acceleration and frame generation, resulting in an FPS gain greater than 60%.

Improvements justify the high price?

When we analyze the preliminary results of the new GPUs with Ada Lovelace architecture, the question remains whether this performance increase justifies the suggested price of $1,599.00 (approximately $8,617 in direct conversion).

GeForce RTX 4090 is expensive, but it is also not aimed at most gamer audiences. Source: NVIDIA 

In virtually all cases the answer is "depends". The first point is that the RTX 4090 is a board aimed at the enthusiastic market, and is far from the reality of the gamer public. Thinking specifically about this particular model, the card ends up being overkill for most systems, which will fatally present several bottlenecks to the new GPU.

However, thinking exclusively of the new architecture, the generational leap even of the input and intermediate models, planned only for 2023, is something to be aware of. 

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti can now be found on official channels at half the $2,000 launch price.Source:NVIDIA 

It is also worth remembering that the RTX 3090 Ti was launched with a suggested price of $2,000 and can currently be found for approximately $1,100 on official NVIDIA channels. 

Thus, it is safe that not only the RTX 4090 can eventually undergo price cuts, but the cheaper plates of the generation have the potential to make obsolete virtually all previous generations.

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