Nvidia RTX 4090 Founders Edition Review

Here we present frame rate figures for each graphics card, averaged across all 12 games on test today. These figures can disguise significant variations in performance from game to game, but provide a useful overview of the sort of performance you can expect at each resolution tested.

Taking a look at the big picture overview, the RTX 4090 goes straight to the top of the chart as we would expect. At 1440p it delivers an average of 202FPS, and that makes it 48% faster on average compared to the RTX 3090 Ti. Against the RTX 3090, we're looking at a 63% uplift, while it's exactly 50% faster than AMD's current fastest, the RX 6950 XT.

You really do need to be playing at 4K to get the most from the silicon, however. At this resolution, the RTX 4090 can stretch its legs and comes in 60% faster on average compared to the RTX 3090 Ti, a hugely impressive gen-on-gen uplift. It's also 80% faster than the vanilla RTX 3090, quite a staggering figure really considering that GPU was the fastest on the market up until March this year.

It's worth taking a closer look at the comparison between the RTX 4090 and RTX 3090 Ti at 4K. While we see a 60% uplift on average, some games scale significantly better than others, as we can see above. Days Gone and Far Cry 6, for instance, are relatively poor performers, and while there's a good stack of games in that 50-60% range, we do see a couple pushing over 70% versus the 3090 Ti.

As always, we recommend checking out other reviews to get as wide of a sample range as possible. Depending on the games in question, overall performance numbers versus the likes of the RTX 3090 Ti and RX 6950 XT will vary.

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