GAMING PARADISE?
IF YOU’VE SEEN OUR RTX 4090 REVIEW, you won’t need me to tell you that this card is a gaming powerhouse, offering a genuine leap forward over the previous generation in terms of raw performance. In the benchmarks, I used our 4K ‘Ultra’ machine from our July 2022 issue as a Zero Point comparison. That machine cost roughly the same price ($3,600) and used the topend components available then, including an RTX 3090 graphics card, AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU, and 32GB of DDR4 3200MHz RAM. All I can say is, what a difference six months makes. At 4K, we get a doubling of performance in Metro Exodus RTX, close to double in the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra score, and even at the lowest improvement in Cyberpunk 2077, we still see a 63 percent gain. CPU performance offers less of a leap forward, with a 33 percent boost to single-core tasks and a 24 percent increase to multicore. That’s still pretty impressive, though.