Ada Lovelace · 2022
The RTX 4090 is the flagship of NVIDIA's 2022 Ada Lovelace generation and, for now, the largest consumer GPU NVIDIA has shipped: 16,384 CUDA cores, 24GB of GDDR6X, and a 384-bit bus delivering 1,008GB/s of bandwidth. It's comfortably the fastest gaming card of its era, handling native 4K ultra settings and even pushing into high-refresh territory with DLSS 3 enabled.
That performance comes with a 450W TDP, so it needs a large case, strong airflow, and a high-capacity power supply - this chip has no laptop equivalent at this core count. It's overkill for 1080p or 1440p gaming, but for 4K, high-refresh gaming, or heavy content-creation and rendering work, it's close to the ceiling of what a single desktop GPU can do.
Top-of-the-line performance for 4K gaming and heavy creator workloads.
24 GB GDDR6X memory.
Push performance beyond base clock.
PCIe 4.0 x16
Power-hungry flagship desktop card - plan cooling and PSU headroom.
The NVIDIA RTX 4090 is a flagship-tier dedicated GPU with 24GB of GDDR6X memory, suited to demanding gaming and content creation workloads.