RTX 4090 review: Spend at least $1,599 for Nvidia’s biggest bargain in years

Re:RTX 4090 review: Spend at least $1,599 for Nvidia’s bigge... by selfhoster11 on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @12:01PM (#33165001)

Compared to past cards, these behemoths aren't the equivalent of a top-end car. They are the equivalent of an oil tanker: slow, wasteful, and while yes, you might sometimes need to harness the power offered by one of these, as a private individual you definitely want something whose fuel efficiency is not measured in hundreds of tons of fuel per day.

Besides all that, releasing "consumer" cards with such overly inefficient power consumption is just being tone-deaf at a time where half of the Western world is facing rapidly rising electricity bills.

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Re:RTX 4090 review: Spend at least $1,599 for Nvidia’s bigge... by paulmd on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @12:43PM (#33165551)

where are people getting this idea that the cards are "inefficient fuel tankers"?

https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-founders-e...

in contrast to the breathless rumors, those power numbers look incredibly reasonable... it's less than the 3090 pulled last gen, and it's 1.7x the perf/w of a 3080 or 2x the efficiency of a 3090. 3090 was always known to be pushed a little far, but, there is an easy 70% uplift in efficiency here, and none of the power-creep stuff ended up actually happening.

4090 Ti will eventually happen, and will pull about the same as 3090 Ti. Which, if it gets 1.7-2x the perf/w, sounds fine.

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