The RTX 4090 has been the head honcho of GPUs for more than a year, and despite prices creeping down, it's not worth picking up the GPU right now. Skip to main content. Menu ...

The RTX 5080 is, on paper, a weaker card than the RTX 4090, with around 50% fewer CUDA cores, fewer RT and Tensor cores (albeit from a later generation), 50% less memory, and a narrower memory bus.

Nvidia says its $549 RTX 5070 can deliver similar performance to the $1,599 RTX 4090. The claim all comes down to DLSS 4 and controversial ‘fake frames.’ It’s all comes down to DLSS 4.

Nvidia RTX 4090 vs RTX 3090 (and Ti): Price and availability. The GeForce RTX 4090’s $1,599 MSRP is significantly less than the $1,999 whopper of a price that the RTX 3090 Ti launched with.

The RTX 4090 sports 16,384 CUDA cores, 24 GB of GDDR6X VRAM, a 384-bit memory bus, and a boost clock of 2,520 MHz. Meanwhile, the RTX 4080 Super offers just 10,240 CUDA cores, ...

With RTX 4090 cards in short supply, even the most hardcore gamers have a reason to wait for the market to shake up. And, as we'll discuss further down, you don't really need a 4090 to get great ...

The RTX 4090 is far and away the most powerful video card you can get right now. No other GPU, either from NVIDIA or from AMD, comes close. As a reference, the RTX 4090 is about 110% faster at 4K ...

The RTX 4090 certainly isn't a slough compared to the rest of the graphics card market, but the RTX 5090 is simply out ahead on its own, performance-wise. Winner: Nvidia RTX 5090; ...

Nvidia’s new RTX 4090 brings a big boost to 4K performance. It’s the next generation of Ada Lovelace cards. Thanks to DLSS 3, you can now play Cyberpunk 2077 and more at very high frame rates.

According to Nvidia's own graphs, it appears there's around 20% to 40% increases for the RTX 5090 over the RTX 4090 — still good, but clearly nowhere near 100%, or twice as fast.

At CES 2025, Nvidia set up two machines for trade show guests to compare—one kitted out with the RTX 5070 and multi-frame generation, and one using the older RTX 4090 with standard frame generation.