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Best Bench: 407% MSI(1462 5104)
Worst Bench: 303% MSI(1462 5104)

Poor: 303% Great: 407%

SPEED RANK: 1^st / 714

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Best Bench: 134% Sapphire(174B A500) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 109% Gigabyte(1458 37A5) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 109% Great: 134%

SPEED RANK: 40^th / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		370 %	Hugely faster effective speed. +199%		124 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	585 fps	Hugely better lighting effects. +255%	165 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	571 fps	Hugely better reflection handling. +234%	171 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	517 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +186%	181 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	560 fps	Hugely faster NBody calculation. +284%	146 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	667 fps	Hugely better peak lighting effects. +261%	185 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	625 fps	Hugely better peak reflection handling. +173%	229 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	552 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +186%	193 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	605 fps	Hugely faster peak NBody calculation. +283%	158 fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	1.73 %	Hugely higher market share. +284%	0.45 %
Value Value For Money	47.5 %		72 %	Much better value. +52%
User Rating UBM User Rating	92 %	Much more popular. +46%	63 %
Price Price (score)	$1,847		$407	Much cheaper. +78%


Age Newest	18 Months	Much more recent. +73%	66 Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	821 fps	Hugely better peak texture detail. +330%	191 fps
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	316 fps	Hugely faster peak complex splatting. +138%	133 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	727 fps	Hugely better texture detail. +338%	166 fps
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	294 fps	Hugely faster complex splatting. +139%	123 fps

The RTX 4090 is based on Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace architecture. It features 16,384 cores with base / boost clocks of 2.2 / 2.5 GHz, 24 GB of memory, a 384-bit memory bus, 128 3rd gen RT cores, 512 4th gen Tensor cores, DLSS 3 and a TDP of 450W. Performance gains will vary depending on the specific game and resolution. With a 4090 tier card 1080p in-game fps will often get CPU bottlenecked which prevents the GPU from delivering higher fps. At higher (often sub-optimal) resolutions (1440p, 4K etc) the 4090 will show increasing improvements compared to lesser cards. When fps are not CPU bottlenecked at all, such as during GPU benchmarks, the 4090 is around 75% faster than the 3090 and 60% faster than the 3090-Ti, these figures are approximate upper bounds for in-game fps improvements. The fact that the 4090 is currently the fastest performing graphics card available is reflected in its jaw-dropping MSRP of $1,600. Since PC gamers rarely buy AMD GPUs, Nvidia only have themselves to compete with. Surprisingly, $1,600 is actually reasonable value for money, when compared to previous gen. flagship cards. Prospective buyers will need a top of the line system to extract maximum performance from the 4090 and because of its monstrous dimensions, many will also need a new PC case. Consumers that demand value for money, should wait a few more months for the 4060 / 4070 models by which time AMD's 7900 series will also probably be heavily discounted. Alternatively, shoppers looking to buy in the near term should consider the last gen. 3060-Ti, which offers excellent real-world (1080p) performance at a fraction of the price ($400 USD). ^{[Oct '22 GPUPro]}

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NVIDIA's RTX 2080 is based on its new Turing architecture which boasts new AI and ray tracing technology that could eventually result in better GPU performance. Unfortunately there are currently no games which can take advantage of these new capabilities. The early 2080 benchmarks only exhibit a modest (20%) performance improvement over the 1080 which considering the new price tag of $800 for the Founders Edition is hard to stomach. The 2080 features 2944 CUDA cores, a base/boost speed of 1515/1710 MHz, 8 GB of GDDR6 memory and a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s. NVIDIA have also released the 2080 Ti which has marginally higher specs together with a jaw dropping price tag of $1200 for the Founders Edition. The RTX 2080 features Turing NVENC which is far more efficient than CPU encoding and alleviates the need for casual streamers to use a dedicated stream PC. Unfortunately for gamers and other consumers, AMD’s top end GPUs such as the Vega 64 still lag NVIDIA's previous flagship 1080 Ti by 30% so there is very little pressure on NVIDIA to offer better value for money. The 2080 only has 8GB of RAM which is fine today but will likely haunt any early adopters that plan to keep the card for more than two years. ^{[Sep '18 GPUPro]}

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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