The RTX 4090 has been the head honcho of GPUs for more than a year, and despite prices creeping down, it's not worth picking up the GPU right now.

The RTX 5080 is, on paper, a weaker card than the RTX 4090, with around 50% fewer CUDA cores, fewer RT and Tensor cores (albeit from a later generation), 50% less memory, and a narrower memory bus.

The excellent HP Omen 45L, with an RTX 4090 GPU, has seen a discount of a third, netting you a saving over well over $1000 ...

The RTX 4090 is a rare sight indeed—it's a GPU that offers a massive generational leap, and it stands far, far above the rest of the lineup. The RTX 4080 Super is not without its perks, though.

Sure, the GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 share the same Ada Lovelace DNA, DLSS 3, and even the chunky cooler size. If we dig deeper, however, the two GPUs are more different than you might think.

Nvidia says its $549 RTX 5070 can deliver similar performance to the $1,599 RTX 4090. The claim all comes down to DLSS 4 and controversial ‘fake frames.’ It’s all comes down to DLSS 4.

The Nvidia RTX 4090 founders edition. If you can't tell, those lines are drawn on, though the heft of this $1,599 product might convince you that they're a reflection of real-world motion blur ...

Nvidia’s new RTX 4090 brings a big boost to 4K performance. It’s the next generation of Ada Lovelace cards. Thanks to DLSS 3, you can now play Cyberpunk 2077 and more at very high frame rates.

That might make the RTX 4090 sound like overkill, and it kind of is, but there are so many high refresh rate 4K monitors coming out that will really take advantage of the power on offer here, and ...

The RTX 4090 is far and away the most powerful video card you can get right now. No other GPU, either from NVIDIA or from AMD, comes close. As a reference, the RTX 4090 is about 110% faster at 4K ...

At CES 2025, Nvidia set up two machines for trade show guests to compare—one kitted out with the RTX 5070 and multi-frame generation, and one using the older RTX 4090 with standard frame generation.

Nvidia RTX 4090 vs RTX 3090 (and Ti): Price and availability. The GeForce RTX 4090’s $1,599 MSRP is significantly less than the $1,999 whopper of a price that the RTX 3090 Ti launched with.