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ASUS RTX 4090 TUF Gaming OC Review

Driver Notes

  • All AMD GPUs were benchmarked with the public Adrenalin 22.9.1 driver.
  • All Nvidia GPUs (except RTX 4090) were benchmarked with the 516.94 driver.
  • RTX 4090 was benchmarked with the 521.90 driver supplied to press.
  • All Intel GPUs were benchmarked with the 101.3433 driver supplied to press.

Test System:

We test using a custom built system powered by MSI, based on Intel’s Alder Lake platform. You can read more about this system HERE and check out MSI on the CCL webstore HERE.

CPU
Intel Core i9-12900K
Motherboard
MSI MEG Z690 Unify
Memory
32GB (2x16GB) ADATA XPG Lancer DDR5 6000MHz
CL 40-40-40
Graphics Card
Varies
SSD
 2TB MSI Spatium M480
Chassis MSI MPG Velox 100P Airflow
CPU Cooler
MSI MEG CoreLiquid S360
Power Supply
 Corsair 1200W HX Series Modular 80 Plus Platinum
Operating System
Windows 11 Pro 21H2
Monitor
MSI Optix MPG321UR-QD
Resizable BAR
Enabled for all supported GPUs

Comparison Graphics Cards List

  • Sapphire RX 6950 XT Nitro+ 16GB
  • AMD RX 6800 XT 16GB
  • Gigabyte RX 6600 XT Gaming OC Pro 8GB
  • Gigabyte RX 6600 Eagle 8GB
  • Nvidia RTX 4090 Founders Edition 24GB
  • Inno3D RTX 4090 X3 OC 2GB
  • Palit RTX 4090 GameRock OC 24GB
  • MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X 24GB
  • Gigabyte RTX 4090 Gaming OC 24GB
  • Gigabyte RTX 3090 Ti Gaming 24GB
  • Gigabyte RTX 3090 Eagle 24GB
  • ASUS RTX 3080 TUF Gaming 10GB
  • Nvidia RTX 3070 FE 8GB
  • Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti FE 8GB
  • Palit RTX 3060 StormX 12GB
  • Nvidia RTX 2060 FE 6GB
  • Intel A770 Limited Edition 16GB
  • Intel A750 Limited Edition 8GB

Software and Games List

  • 3DMark Fire Strike & Fire Strike Ultra (DX11 Synthetic)
  • 3DMark Time Spy (DX12 Synthetic)
  • 3DMark DirectX Raytracing feature test (DXR Synthetic)
  • Assassin's Creed Valhalla (DX12)
  • Cyberpunk 2077 (DX12)
  • Days Gone (DX11)
  • Dying Light 2 (DX12)
  • Far Cry 6 (DX12)
  • Forza Horizon 5 (DX12)
  • God of War (DX11)
  • Horizon Zero Dawn (DX12)
  • Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered (DX12)
  • Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition (DXR)
  • Red Dead Redemption 2 (DX12)
  • Resident Evil Village (DX12)
  • Total War: Warhammer III (DX11)

We run each benchmark/game three times, and present mean averages in our graphs. We use FrameView to measure average frame rates as well as 1% low values across our three runs.

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