NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition Review & Benchmarks: Gaming, Power, & Thermals

Sponsor: Buy the be quiet! Silent Wings 4 Pro fans on Amazon Our review of the NVIDIA RTX 4090 Founders Edition video card tests the new GPU vs. the RTX 3090 Ti, RX 6950 XT, RTX 3090, RTX 2080 Ti, and more. This $1600 MSRP video card has a release date of October 12, 2022, and has mostly been in rumors for power consumption, transient spikes and power supply choice, and thermals. Now, we have all those benchmarks and gaming (rasterization) and ray tracing GPU testing, including DLSS & FSR benchmarks with ray tracing. The RTX 4090 is a complicated card to test given its feature set -- especially because DLSS3 doesn’t really have much of an existence yet. The best way to support our work is through our store: Grab a GN Anti-Static Large Modmat on the store! Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: Learn about the GPU Transient Power Problem: Watch us cut an RTX 4090 cooler in half for science: Watch our Intel A770 GPU review: Watch our discussion of the NVIDIA RTX 4090 vs. RTX 4080 specs: RELATED PRODUCTS [Affiliate Links] NVIDIA RTX 4090 on Amazon (in theory): AMD RX 6950 XT on Amazon: NVIDIA RTX 3080 on Amazon: Intel Arc A750 on Amazon (in theory): Intel Arc A770 on Amazon (in theory): AMD RX 6600 on Amazon: AMD RX 6600 XT on Amazon: NVIDIA RTX 3060 on Amazon: TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - NVIDIA RTX 4090 FE GPU Review 01:18 - Too Much Data & Price Reminders 01:40 - Desperate to Dump Inventory 03:40 - Thermal Testing Methods on RTX 4090 06:09 - Temperature Results for RTX 4090 Founders Edition (Port Royal) 07:24 - Fan Response to Thermals 07:55 - Surprisingly Good Thermal Results 09:50 - A Big Change for the Market 10:15 - The GPU Transient Spike Problem 12:23 - Surprising Power Behavior Results on RTX 4090 14:54 - You Need to Know This About the Cable 16:23 - RTX 4090 Power Consumption vs. RTX 3090 Ti 17:05 - Gaming Benchmarks: Total Warhammer 3 4K, 1440p, 1080p 18:36 - F1 2022 GPU Benchmarks (RTX 4090 vs. RTX 3090 Ti, 2080 Ti, etc.) 20:30 - Tomb Raider 4K Benchmarks 21:05 - Important Reminder 21:45 - Tomb Raider in 1440p, 4K 22:18 - Rainbow Six Siege Best Video Cards 2022 23:30 - Horizon Zero Dawn GPU Benchmarks 24:19 - Final Fantasy 4K & 1440p GPU Benchmarks 25:08 - GTA V GPU Benchmarks on RTX 4090 (lol) 25:45 - DLSS, FSR, DLSS3, Ray Tracing Challenges 26:30 - Control Ray Tracing Benchmarks 27:57 - Ray Tracing F1 2022 Benchmarks 29:18 - Cyberpunk 2077 Ray Tracing RTX 4090 Benchmarks 30:32 - Ray Tracing Tomb Raider Tests 30:48 - Conclusion ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video (“this video is brought to you by“) and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or “sponsored content“ (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: f: w: Host, Writing, Testing & Lead: Steve Burke Testing, Research: Patrick Lathan Video Editing, Testing: Mike Gaglione Video Production: Andrew Coleman Power Testing: Patrick Stone