GeForce RTX 4090 could have ‘scary’ performance. Is the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti already old?

Waiting to understand when NVIDIA will decide to introduce the new ones GeForce RTX 4000, the world of indiscretions continues to murmur. The leaker Kopite7kimi states that the GeForce RTX 4090initial top of the range of the new series, would be able to exceed 19,000 points in the Graphics Test of 3DMark Time Spy Extreme.

The presumed result, although it comes from a single test and moreover synthetic, is interesting because it allows you to get a rough idea of ​​the possible performance improvement compared to the current generation. 3DMark Time Spy Extreme “runs” in 4K, a resolution that the RTX 3000 series certainly manages better than the Turing GPUs (RTX 2000) but which still cannot be said to be completely digested.

Well, with a leap of 66% over the RTX 3090 Ti and 82% over the RTX 3090we would be faced with a big step forward, even if it remains to be understood how this apparent improvement will translate into real games and, more importantly, with the activation of ray tracing, the real challenge of this generation. Incidentally, the leaker claims that the result would not be the best possible, in fact, speaks of frequencies, L2 cache and reduced TGP. “The over 19,000 points are just the beginning,” she points out.

According to the rumors leaked so far, summarized in this news, the GeForce RTX 4090 should have a GPU AD102 con 16384 CUDA core active (+ 52% compared to the RTX 3090 Ti), flanked by 24 GB of GDDR6X memory at 21 Gbps on a 384-bit bus. There is talk of a 450W TDP, similar to the current GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.

To this indiscretion is added another, even less verifiable than the one just dealt with. According to another Twitter account, that XpeaGPU, a card with a fully active AD102 GPU, therefore a hypothetical RTX 4090 Ti with a possible TGP of 800W, it would be able to exceed 160 fps in Control at 4K resolution, with active ray tracing and DLSS. The result that, according to Hassan Mujtaba of Wccftech, it would exceed by 2.2 times what the RTX 3090 achieved under similar conditions.

Clearly there are many unknown variables (platform, level of DLSS, etc.), including ascertaining the seriousness of this leaker who is relatively new on the “spiff” scene.