RTX 4090 Reddit Verdict: Overkill or Endgame GPU?

Alternate title: Discontinued item that is no longer being supplied faces price gouging from third parties to take advantage of impatient suckers.

I hate these articles. Anyone can list a product for any price they want. That doesn't mean there was an actual price hike. It just means someone is scalping an out of stock product for profit.

We have the same setup. 7950X3D and 4090 is the best hardware i ever bought, 4090 is superb.

If you have the money, then I say yes. The 4090 is just absolutely insane. Even coming from something like a 3090. Only time since the 1080ti that jumping to the next series is very noticeable in performance.

Yes 4090 is truly a game changer. No need to tweak settings, just play. If something, you often need to frame limit your games lol.

If you can afford it, absolutely. Brutal performance that can still get CPU bottlenecked at 4K. I expect the 4090 to age as well as the 1080 Ti did.

There is so much CPU bottleneck in these tests that the average don't tell the full story...

The skinniest (FE 137mm) 4090's + power adapter cabling is touching the side panel/glass of cases rated for 190mm CPU cooler clearance putting pressure on the PCB. Massive issue as that's around where all mid-towers tend to land.

The 4090 is the hands down best GPU on the market right now. And if 4K 120fps is what you're gunning for, that 4090, 13600K combo is pretty much unbeatable.

i went from a 3090 to a 4090 and was impressed by the upgrade. I cant imagine how you felt!

The 4090 is the perfect Oled machine running 4k120hz

I upgraded from a 3090 to a 4090 and couldn't believe how much more performance I got. So, with all the shit in the recent past the 4090 feels like a really wise choice in hindsight. Got the FE model right on launch (the markup on some aftermarket cards is not worth it imho)

You will likely end up in a situation where the new stuff is either out of stock entirely, or is being scalped to shit. And then all of the old stuff is out of stock completely, or being scalped to shit. We already seem to have reached the 2nd one.

The graphics card itself is remarkable and although it consumes a lot of power, it's nice to have the 4K/144Hz and RTX experience finally fully viable.

If rtx 5080 1200, rtx 4090 at 1400.

You realize the 4090 costed 400 less 2 years ago.

Bought a 4090 from Newegg three weeks ago at 1800. I usually upgrade at the tail end of the release cycle. Easier to find waterblocks and not deal with out of stock items.

misleading title... (re: claim that Nvidia nerfed 4090 performance — it was a broken driver, not intentional)

I'd say it's still worth like $200 under MSRP. So $1400 max. Assuming one has the money, I'd say $1200 starts to approach the "no brainer" territory.

If it's Canadian, yeah okay. If it's USD, it's a shit deal. You're basically that person's exit liquidity.

Displayport 1.4 on a $1600 video card?

Absolutely not [buy at $2000], wait for the 50 series to get restocked after the Chinese new year. If you really need something right now, then just get a used 3090 or 3090TI for 6-800 bucks, and sell it when you can find a 5090 easily. When the 5090 is back in stock, you'll have overpaid msrp SEVERAL years after launch for a generation old 4090.

Basically a lifetime upgrade

I went from never owning a gaming pc, straight to a 4090. I was a console gamer all my life. I'm really enjoying certain games not being 30fps anymore

I'm not complaining about my 4090. For like 99% of games you just put everything on Ultra and go to town.

Just wait for stock man, they'll be everywhere at some point this year. Don't blow money for no reason. Don't give in to scalpers either. Let them turn those for msrp.

I'm one of those old fashioned people who expects GPUs to be MSRP at launch and slowly decrease from there. Since it debuted in 2022, I'd expect the 4090 to be close to $1200 by now.

I upgraded from 3090 to 4090 yesterday and let me tell you, it's not even comparable. I have an ultrawide so 4k on the 3090 was always a chore. Cyberpunk I could get like 80 to 100 fps. On the 4090, I have failed to give it a challenge yet. 4k ultra cyberpunk on 21:9, 150 fps average. The biggest change in my opinion is thermals, where my 3090 basically lived at 95 degrees, the 40 hasn't been over 70 yet.

Haha, I love my 4090 but this sub is full of people who hate it, likely cause they can't afford it. Understandable, it's expensive, but still doesn't take away from how dominating it is. We haven't seen a jump like this since the 1080ti, and there's been no true competition for it. It's worth every penny to play 4k games at 150 fps

I just sold my 4090 for 1400. Hopefully, I can get a 5090 at launch. I've been pretty lucky, so fingers crossed.

4090 owner here. Zero regrets. It feels good to be able to max out settings with performance headroom to spare in most games. Also there are already games out there like cyberpunk that push the 4090 to its limits so it isn't really overkill if you can afford it.

I am using 4080 on 4k 144hz and it does just fine. Undervolted to 1v it uses around 270w and barely gets to low 60s. If you care about efficiency and lower temps I believe 4080 is a better all around choice, plus you save few hundreds.

I'm super stoked to get one and see how fast this puppy can run. It doubles the 3090's performance and that card already does well in VR, so high expectations for VR performance.

I have both a PS5 and a PC with the 4090. I say it's worth it. My PS5 is for exclusives and certain games which are otherwise poorly optimized on PC. If you can afford a 4090, go for it.

I went 1080 to 4090 and it felt like a 6-8x performance boost.... So I feel you...

Starts at $3,000 here. If I see a 4090 for $1,500 I would actually buy 2. I'm just waiting for the suckers to panic sell their 4090 for a 5090 and I'll get a nice price on a used one.

I went from 3080 10gb to my 4090 and the difference was still DOUBLE. It's insane. I'm very excited for the 5090, I hope the performance is at least 50% more.

$1600 is not normal for gaming. Nothing wrong with getting a good 4K card that's not a 4090. I have a 4090. It's a beast. If prices were the way they are now I would have gladly spent less than $1k for an XTX or 4080

4090 will pretty much give you a guaranteed 60+ fps. More in the range of 100+ in any games you can think of at 4K. I'm gaming on a 55" LG C2 with 4090 and it looks fucking amazing.

Got it [4090 + LG C2 42"]. Not once regretted it. G-Sync, 4k 120fps. It is absolutely insane! No better gaming experience anywhere ever.

Like the others said if you have the money and don't have to eat ramen for a year after buying it, just do it. I recently got a 4090 FE and it's a beast. With a 3440x1440 ultra wide 165Hz monitor and a 5800X3D it just powers through every game and the FE cooler is so good it even stays at 63-64 degrees under load.

I upgraded straight from a Radeon 570 to a 4090 (more like gave the whole pc to a friend and built a new one) including 4K Monitor upgrade. I'd never go back.

Absolutely insane card. I upgraded last year from 1070 and I'm astonished. Absolute monster.

Yep went from 1080ti sc2 to the rog strix 4090 oc... I went to rdr2. Absolutely stunning!! Everything i wanted

For the price it better be. It's a $1,700 graphics card.

It fucking better be for that price point.

Nvidia went all out with this card. Impressive performance gains. Exceptional cooling. Decent power consumption. Possibly the next 1080 ti of this generation.

I upgraded from a series x to a pc with a 4090 and a 13700k… The difference is night and day. Console games usually use dynamic resolution scene by scene where the 4090 will stay locked at 4k. For me the higher fps was the game changer, being able to consistently run native 4k with maxed out settings with a consistent 120fps is the best part.

I paid 2k for my 4090 with zero regret. If you can find a 5090 then obviously get that but if a 4090 is staring in the face I don't think it's a bad deal. I love mine.

5090 gives massive performance gains in high end VR, 60%+. So the 5090 will gain extra over the 4090 as games improve