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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Review: The Next Level In Graphics Performance

Digital Foundry : Nvidia's RTX 4090 delivers a new level in graphics performance, to the point where there's an argument that in many/most gaming scenarios, you'll be hitting CPU limits - often, even at 4K resolution. In this review, we go into depth on what the RTX 4090 can deliver in the most punishing gaming graphics workloads, we examine its power consumption and efficiency, we look at image reconstruction, rasterisation and DLSS 3. Just how powerful is the RTX 4090? Find out here.

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phoenixwing989d ago (Edited 989d ago )

Thing is an inefficient space heater that will trip your breaker. Kidding of course but it's power wattage is ridiculous

Fishy Fingers989d ago

"Its efficiency is significantly better than last gen"

Joules per frame. Yeah, the numbers are ridiculous but so is the performance.

phoenixwing989d ago (Edited 989d ago )

Unless power bills go down I'm bowing out at the ps5 Gen. Just too much of an energy bill. Just going to keep my ps5 and maybe get a 3000 series card when they're cheaper. Still have my 2070 super rtx

Fishy Fingers989d ago

For sure, I'm not saying its a good thing or anything. Just if youre buying one of these and have the pc and screen to make the most of it youre probably not fussed.

phoenixwing989d ago

Yeah I get what your saying a performance enthusiast would buy this day 1

CrimsonIdol988d ago

@Fishy Fingers. I mean, I would have considered it if it fit within the still-kinda-crazy 350w power window that the last gen 3080s and 3090s did (yeah I know the Ti versions bumped up a fair bit more). I've got a 4K 144Hz monitor.

But everyone's got their limits, their red lines. Everyone will need a new PSU to go with it, and you won't want to cheap out on it. You've got electricity bills to pay. The people who can justify spending this kind of money on a GPU isn't like a rich/not rich switch, you are invariably pricing more people in or out of the market with each additional dollar cost.

Any efficiency gains have been completely mitigated by using that to pump at higher clocks for maximum frames. As technically correct as it is to say it's more efficient at the end of the day it's still drawing 500 watts while you're playing a video game compared to about half that playing the same game with a top of the line card from a from a couple generations ago.

I actually wonder how viable it might be to underclock these babies to sacrifice some of the performance to fit it within a less insane power budget. It's clearly got the performance to spare tbh.

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--Onilink--989d ago

Well, the founders edition is exactly the same as it was for the 3090ti. So while not exactly a small number, its still only 450w and you can technically run it with an 850w PSU (or 1000w more realistically depending on what else you are running).

The board partners are the ones that have gone a bit too crazy, both in size and power requirements

CrimsonIdol988d ago

The FE card draws 500w when fully GPU limited. And if you overclock the FE card that goes up closer to 670w. So it's not just the board partners going crazy

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@CrimsonIdol

I havent seen a single review mentioning anything close to 500w, let alone 670w.

If anything, there seemed to be plenty of scenarios where it was actually drawing even less power than the 3090ti at the same settings

Name Last Name989d ago

The 3080 already tripped my living room breakers and I had to move my setup to my bedroom. This thing would blow up my apartment.

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DashMad988d ago

good space heater consume 1500w lmao if it's consume less than that it's a steal

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Vithar989d ago

next level pricing too, need to mortage the house

lonewolf10988d ago

Sell more like, couldn't afford a mortgage after this.

mastershredder989d ago

Welcome to the Next level in electric bills.

Father__Merrin989d ago

450w tdp £1700 and the result.... Battlefield 2042 will look and play the same compared to a 2080ti

Can't imagine someone buys one for just gaming

ChubbyBlade988d ago

Higher framerates do not play the same as lower ones.

badz149988d ago

it's the same if you only have a 60Hz display though

lonewolf10988d ago

So a 2080Ti is all a gamer will ever need as only Battlefield 2042 is available ever , right.

Can't imagine someone buys one for just gaming

My god.

StarkR3ality988d ago (Edited 988d ago )

seeing the majority of games at ultra running at 150 - 300fps (other than cyberpunk) is nice but there's no need really, unless you're rich and have the display to take advantage. Personally think 60fps is perfectly fine, anything over 120fps is overkill.

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ChubbyBlade988d ago

You’re forgetting upcoming titles.

StarkR3ality988d ago (Edited 988d ago )

Honestly by the time games are optimised to take advantage of the 4090, the 6090 will be out :L

The only games that push the 3090 hard now are unoptimised games like cyberpunk and the like. Games are built for console first, PC second most of the time, which is a hinderence to people who have bad ass GPU's

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It Shouldn't Take Expedition 33's Success to Remind Square Enix That Turn-Based Still Sells

TNS: Expedition 33 was the wake-up call Square Enix needed, telling it turn-based RPGs are still popular, but that shouldn't have been the case.

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Relientk771h ago

True, but if it does get it through their thick skulls, then that works.

Although, the Dragon Quest 1 + 2 HD remakes will be turn-based and (the worst kept secret) Final Fantasy IX remake should be turn-based I would imagine. Let's see if any newer games go turn-based too.

DivineHand1251h ago

While it is true that Sqaure Enix has moved away from turn based games compared to how they were in the past, there is a good reason for it.

Older gamers will know this but during the ps2 era, we were flooded with turned based games from Japanese studios and this created a form of fatigue back then going into the next generation.

When Square released FF13, they received heavy criticism for making the game turned based like every other FF game and not doing enough to innovate. This is why they made FF15, FF7 Remake and FF16 have real time combat. It gave the series a fresh spin and has brought in new fans to the series.

I personally would be happy with either turned based FF or the real-time combat version we see today.

Shane Kim13m ago

Remake and Rebirth have "turn based" if you set it in the settings.

andy8543m ago

Only need to look at their own game DQ 11 approaching 10 million to show there's a market. And that's not as big of a name as FF

Tacoboto23m ago

Another article about Expedition 33 and Square Enix and turn-based games? This is starting to sound like propaganda.

The game didn't sell because it's a turn-based game; it sold and is enjoyed because it's a really freaking good game that released completed at a good price without gamer drama attached to it. No Mtx, no wait-until-it's-patched, minimal bloat, a self-contained story, no multiplatform BS. Just a solid original game that absolutely nails what it intended to do.

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Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition announced for Nintendo Switch 2

We have another announcement from the Little Nightmares universe as Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition was just announced for Nintendo Switch 2. It launches on October 10, 2025. According to today’s announcement, Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition will run at 4K and 60 frames per second.

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Terry_B1d 12h ago

..announced for every System including the Switch 2.

hiawa231d 3h ago

Definitely getting it for the Switch 2.

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Microsoft planning “major” Xbox layoffs next week

The cuts are expected to be announced next week.

Microsoft is also planning thousands of job cuts that will impact other parts of it businesses

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Obscure_Observer2d ago

MFs has been beating their chests over great quarterly results and big profits to shareholders while firing people by the thousands just like Sony.

I wonder if at the top of those rumored layoffs they´ll also cancel upcoming or unannounced games while shutting down more studios as well.

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pwnmaster30001d 23h ago

Always got to throw shade at Sony smh.
Yes we get it,
MS good Sony bad
MS bad Sony is also bad lmao

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Obscure_Observer1d 23h ago

F* them both!

Just for the record, I don´t care about your victim complex crap either. Find someone else who cares.

Terry_B1d 23h ago

Yeah..its super annoying.

blacktiger1d 22h ago

He was talking about both. Why you getting offended when he's using both names

pwnmaster30001d 22h ago (Edited 1d 22h ago )

@Blacktiger

Im not offended , that’s just his formula lol
He can’t help help himself, he needs to bring Sony down when the topic involves MS.
Whether is good news for MS or bad, it some how leads to Sony doing bad lmao.
It’s actually hilarious.

InUrFoxHole1d 17h ago

He's not wrong but im tracking what youre saying. In this case is should just be MS bad. Thats a lot of people fired

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Tacoboto1d 23h ago

"just like Sony"

Gosh you're insufferable, not everything needs to be both-sides'd. Sony's had layoffs, but nothing like what Microsoft has been doing and is continuing to do.

CrimsonWing691d 23h ago (Edited 1d 23h ago )

I mean, no offense, but this is why you’re not some corporate business person running a major corporation. Big profits don’t mean jobs are safe. Do you understand why things like this happen:

Cutting jobs to maintain or increase profitability, especially in underperforming divisions like parts of Xbox like other gaming divisions.

Corporate restructuring and relocating resources for strategic stability in ever changing markets and consumer behaviors.

Investor expectations and optimizing operations to maintain investor confidence. Whatever boosts stock prices and improves future margins.

And there’s many other factors at play. It’s never as simple as business doing well, everyone’s safe. That’s just you not understanding at all how corporations work and have been working since the beginning. This isn’t something that’s specific to Xbox, you can bet your ass Sony and Nintendo do this and if it’s not clear by now, game development is not a stable job nor has it ever been for many. A lot of developers are contractors and guess what happens when a project is done?

Ganif1d 22h ago

Nintendo said they have no plans for layoffs, and you can't seriously claim that the scale of Sony's layoffs most of which involved Bungie which is self managed as even close to the same scale as what Microsoft has done since they purchased Zenimax. And that significantly less layoffs would have happened if those publishers had stayed independent. Keep in mind that much of these layoffs have been due to redundancies specifically related to these buyouts.

CrimsonWing691d 21h ago (Edited 1d 21h ago )

@Ganif

Nintendo:

https://gamerant.com/ninten...

Sony:

https://gamerant.com/playst...

https://techxplore.com/news...

I don’t think it’s realistic to treat Sony’s layoffs as somehow outside the norm for the industry right now. Even if Bungie is self-managed, Sony’s cuts went far beyond that like Naughty Dog, Insomniac, London Studio being shut down completely, and multiple teams across the globe took hits. These weren’t just minor adjustments.

Nintendo, I had to look up and you’re right. They seem to be an outlier, but rest assured at some point it happens. And even then there’s been layoffs, albeit a smaller amount and contractors.

Would fewer layoffs have happened if studios from acquisitions stayed independent? Maybe. But even independents have been hit hard and look at what’s happened with Embracer’s fallout, or smaller devs like Digic, Roll7, or Volition. This isn’t just a “Microsoft problem” or strictly tied to acquisitions; it’s a broader correction happening across the whole industry, and unfortunately, layoffs are a big part of that process right now.

Ganif1d 21h ago

From your article:

"According to reports, Nintendo of America restructured its testing operations, leading to layoffs of about 120 contractors, part of a strategy for global integration.

Nintendo of America, publisher of iconic franchises like Mario and Zelda, is shifting some contractors to full-time roles for better development integration."

Contractors are not employees, and even if you want to count them as that, it's 120 people vs around 7500 since Microsoft purchased Zenimax.

In an era of game industry layoffs, Nintendo is hiring more people
https://automaton-media.com...

Nintendo Announces 10 Percent Pay Raise For Devs Despite Lower Profits
https://kotaku.com/nintendo...

Nintendo CEO’s refusal to layoff staff goes viral following industry-wide cuts
"Satoru Iwata took pay cuts to ensure staff didn’t have to be let go"
https://www.nme.com/news/ga...

And as for Sony you're comparing less than 1000 total jobs to an estimated7500

Has the industry faced layoffs, yes, but that still doesn't account for the mass layoffs due to redundancies that was easily predictable, or that fact that at least 1/3 of Microsoft's layoffs and studio closures happened before the industry downturn.

thorstein1d 20h ago (Edited 1d 20h ago )

Take the L, Crimson.

People hate Nintendo, but Ganif proved why they deserve support.

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-Foxtrot1d 22h ago

It's like banging your head off a wall, he just can't help himself.

Microsoft can do no wrong, Sony sucks at everything and Nintendo is bigged up because it's less hassle than trying to defend Microsoft all the time

What's going to happen when Microsoft finally turn completely third party, then what?

anast1d 22h ago

I enjoy Obscure. Obscure does good work.

crazyCoconuts1d 22h ago

Did you know that the first n4g was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program.

Tacoboto1d 21h ago

I wouldn't be surprised at this point if anast and osbcure were both alts for the Admin.

We know how Obscure especially drums up additional comments and clicks with his spam-worthy remarks that somehow never get moderated

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Profchaos1d 19h ago

Thats business present a strong front to your shareholders while your company burns around you.

Keep shareholders happy at all costs andnif not happy keep them numb to the reality of you organisation

Angyobangyo1d 10h ago

" Just for the record, I don´t care about your victim complex crap either. Find someone else who cares. "

Just for the record, you clearly you do if you have to vent this hard.

TheExecutioner1d 7h ago

Basically you think like kids when it come to choose between candy or chocolate.

Sonic18811d 6h ago (Edited 1d 6h ago )

Are you and Anast the same person?

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