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code zcm 50 using the link down below 2 years ago the GeForce RTX 390 launched at an eyew watering $1,500 us and NVIDIA's justification for this was that it was a Titan class GPU now of course we all know now that that was BS as NVIDIA launched the RTX 390 TI just 6 months ago in March of 2022 at two grand with a very modest spec bump for the price and still no Titan class floating Point compute functionality both cards are available at around $1,000 or so today thanks to the crash and GPU demand and competition from AMD is actually coming in a little bit less than that the RTX 490 that launches at $1600 us what do you get for the price of three PS5 gaming consoles it's not a Titan class GPU and it has the same amount of vram as the previous gen RTX 390 but that's where the similarities end not only is the memory as fast as what you'd find on an RTX 39 90 TI you're getting over 50% more Cuda cor that are each clocked at over 35% higher I mean say what you want but that alone would be a substantial upgrade for a mere 7% increase in MSRP which is half the rate of inflation since 2020 what a steal is what I would say if it weren't for the fact that it's it's honestly it's still the price of an entire mid-range gaming PC on its own so what else does this bring to the table and NVIDIA claims that each of their Cuda cores is beefed up compared to the outgoing ampere architecture in almost all respects with claimed performance improvements of up to two times what the 30 series could achieve that's thanks in large part to nearly double the L1 cach and a substantial change in the core layout itself and also to the use of tsmc's new N4 process that allows the total die area to be nearly 150 mm squared smaller than its predecessor of course we need to test NVIDIA's claims so we cut the lamps to fire up our shiny new socket am5 bench with a fresh install of Windows 1122 H1 and go to town with testing why 22 H1 apparently 22 H2 introduced some issues that NVIDIA is not going to have ironed out by the time this video airs but for now let's turn our attention to the main event games and right out of the gate okay no these numbers aren't right turns out stability issues with our bench messed up the settings and enabled fidelity FX upscaling our bad it's still really good though that's over 60 FPS most of the time in Native 4K we're also looking at minimum frame rates Beyond 120 at 4K in fors of horizon 5 compared to sub 90 on the 390 TI and it is incredibly stable Assassin's Creed Valhalla frame rate also shut up by about 50% on the 490 enabling 4K 120 FPS gameplay without any compromises remember this is just the rasterization performance what we thought NVIDIA was trying to hide from us by showing off their RT performance in the Press materials Far Cry 6 another Ubisoft title doesn't seem quite the same Improvement however at about 30% or so across the board it's not bad like not at all but I'm just ruined after seeing those other results improvements continue to become more modest in Shadow the Tomb Raider where we're likely starting to get CPU Limited at 4K I'll let that sink in for a moment maybe watch washed down with a big Swig from our chungus 64 Oz water bottle from LTD store.com we see exactly that problem again when we run csgo where for some bizarre reason the situation is flipped on its head the RTX 390 TI outperforms the 490 throughout multiple runs it's especially surprising because the GPU core clocks and the load remained High I mean if you've got an explanation I'd love to see your take in the comments dropping the resolution down to 1440p it seems like we're becoming even more more CPU bound but critically the minimum frame rates in fors of horizon 5 are massively improved making for a smoother overall experience interestingly CSG go actually manages to return to normal C at 1440p so I don't know maybe we've got a driver bug at 4K or something now do you still remember that cyberpunk result yeah okay okay so check this out proportionately we're looking at an even bigger performance Improvement compared to traditional rendering at nearly double the 390 TI although we're not quite able to pull off 60 FPS at 4K without dlss and when we turn rate tracing on in the much older shadow of the Tomb Raider the 4090 is capable of nearly doubling the minimum FPS of the 3090 TI that brings this title from Mostly 60 FPS or more at 4K to a buttery smooth 100 to 12 20 dfps all without dlss with dlss in performance mode cyber hook manages close to 100 FPS and minimum frame rates enough to be quite smooth with gsync enabled so long as you can handle the image quality shadow of the Tomb Raider in dlss quality mode is just ridiculous where the 3090 TI can't quite reach 90 FPS and 5% lows the 4090 is fast enough to comfortably Drive 144hz 4k monitor now you might be wondering about the uh new dlss 3.0 NVIDIA's AI frame generation technology we're wondering too unfortunately all of our cards even the third party ones that we're not allowed to show you today all of them crashed a lot like a lot a lot even across multiple benches as a result the Labs weren't able to properly test dlss 3.0 and we'd like more rate tracing results than we got we'll have all of that missing data in a follow-up so stay tuned but okay what if you're not a big gamer well you're in luck because this thing is also a productivity beast in blender it gets over double the samples per minute in both the monster and junk shop scenes and just under double in the older classroom scene that's a substantial Time Savings and might be worth it on its own if you're a 3D artist similarly our 4K Da Vinci resolve export finished nearly a minute faster a difference of roughly 25% something that that'll also add up over time especially for timelines with a lot of rendered graphical effects spec view perf meanwhile shows massive gains across the board with the most substantial improvements in 3ds Max Maya medical and solid works that nearly double the score well Creo only saw a modest performance Improvement of around 10% still this is like looking at a completely different class of GPU not a typical generational improvement with all of these performance gains maybe NVIDIA had to price these at $1,600 that they had any hope at all of selling through all of their mining Surplus 390s and that's not everything either another big part of productivity that many companies Intel and apple included are taking very seriously is video encoding and NVIDIA's out to prove that they're not sleeping on the job not only do you get the same highquality encoder that first debuted on the RTX 20 series as we saw in our Da Vinci resolve test but you get two of them and they're both capable of av1 av1 is the new codec that's likely to take over for live and On Demand streaming on sites like YouTube and twitch and while it can produce significantly better video quality at the same bit rates it's significantly more timec consuming and difficult to encode unless you have Hardware dedicated for it Intel Arc launch with it as a headline feature and it's a safe bet that it'll become more important as time goes on un fortunately we don't have the time right now to do a proper test of it for the review so again stay tuned for a future video comparing av1 encoders what I can tell you today is that it's nearly as fast as NVIDIA's existing h264 and h265 encoders which is pretty impressive of course all of these capabilities come with some drawbacks the first of which being the power draw in order to reach the power Target that NVIDIA sent for it the RTX 490 universally requ Ires an ATX 3.0 connector and comes with adapter swort in the Box as the specs indicated our RTX 490 draws nearly as much power under gaming load as the RTX 390 TI though it did stay closer to 425 Watts than it's rated 450 this is a sharp contrast against the RTX 390 and 6950 XT which consistently both pulled nearly 100 Watts less this does not bode well for an eventual RTX 490 TI at least the power Targets on the 480 series cards are lower though we don't have any of those to test today when we hit the RTX 490 with a more demanding load via MSI combuster power consumption skyrockets the red line for both the RTX 490 and the 3090 TI though curiously about halfway through it kind of dips down to about 440 which is kind of strange meanwhile the RTX 390 once again doesn't cross that 350 W threshold and neither did the 6950 XT with great power of course comes great thermal output capacity and the RTX 490 is no exception with thermals while gaming tracking roughly in line with the power consumption its massive 3 and 1 half slot cooler keeps the hot spot at the 80° Mark while gaming placing it squarely between the RTX 390 and the 6950 XT despite the power draw a testament to NVIDIA's cooler design core Clocks Were obviously way higher than any previous gen card and crucially they remained just as stable throughout the run at about 2.6 to 2.7 GHz when we look at again at our combuster results though the hot spot temperature crosses the 80° threshold along with the RTX 390 TI and we again see that slight dip halfway end of the run while the 3090 sits below 70° core clocks end up significantly lower at around 2.25 GHz for the 4090 with the 3090 TI throttling down to below its less power hungry sibling our AMD card meanwhile sort of did a heartbeat pattern of boosting and throttling that could result in uneven performance it's worth noting that the these tests were performed inside of a coair 5000d air flow with a 360 mm rat up top and 3 120 mm fans drawing air up front so it's not like we were starving the carrots for oxygen or feeding them hot air from the CPU in fact in spite of all the air flow we gave them the RTX 490 and 390 TI both caused internal casair temperatures to hit highs of 39 to 40° with significantly higher minimum internal temperatures than the RTX 390 all at an ambient temperature of around 21° that means that if your case can just barely handle a 3090 you won't be able to manage a 4090 sorry small form factor efficient Autos this card is not for you after all that you might look at the spec sheet and have some lingering questions like why isn't NVIDIA supporting PCI Express Gen 5 and where's DisplayPort 2.0 and the answer to those questions both of them whether you like it or not is that NVIDIA doesn't think you need on a $1600 graphics card you you smell that yeah that's the distinct scent of copium while it's true that a GPU running a whole 16 Lanes of PCI Express Gen 5 probably won't be super useful today a GPU running eight Lanes of Gen 5 certainly would be especially for those who also want lots of NVMe storage a good bet for a card of this class remember the faster the PCI Express link the fewer the lanes you need for the same bandwidth require IR ments NVIDIA should know this as for DisplayPort 2.0 the official line is DisplayPort 1.0 already supports 8K at 60 HZ and consumer displays won't need more for a while which is pretty valid well it's true that DisplayPort 1.4 only supports up to 120 HZ at full unadulterated resolution can go up to 268 HZ with no chroma sub sampling using display stream compression which is reported to be visually lossless that's pretty good consider considering displays that can refresh faster than that aren't very common still I would argue that this is a suboptimal experience on such premium Hardware 240 HZ 4K displays exist today and will have DisplayPort 2.0 support soon Arc already supports it and rdna 3 has been confirmed to support DisplayPort 2.0 since May NVIDIA is clearly trying to save a book again on a GPU that costs as much as a series X A PS5 a switch and a steam deck combined or maybe these cards were just ready and waiting in a warehouse for longer than we realized it's incredibly amusing to me that the first GPU that might actually be capable of running 8K gaming without asterisks is being handled in such a lacad isical fashion by team green the days of generational performance per dollar gains are over they say Moore's Law is dead they say and yet the competition doesn't seem to think so while it's true that nobody can touch the 490s mammoth performance right now as we saw with the RTX 390 that won't last forever and that's where things get weird as it exists right now while the RTX 490 chugs as much power as an RTX 3090 TI it is a massive upgrade over both that card and the vanilla 390 in nearly every respect well in excess of its price increase for Content creators this is a no-brainer but I cannot in good cont ience recommend Gamers with more dollars than cents go out and purchase a piece of Hardware that is incapable of driving the also very expensive displays that might actually be able to take advantage of it especially when a less expensive and less power hungry card perhaps even NVIDIA's own RTX 480s can do the same thing just like I can tell you about our sponsor Nord security if you keep up with the tech news you know that hackers are always looking for new ways to compromise everything from Tech Giant servers to Grand computer thankfully Nord Security's well-rounded protection package is there to help protect your files devices and personal data online there's Nord pass a password manager that helps you generate unique passwords across your devices and browsers and then there's Nord Locker a powerful file encryption and sharing service that's a great alternative to Google Drive cyber crime is everywhere these days so make sure you're taking precautions when you surf the web right now you can get 4 months free on all of nord's products so what are you waiting for head to Nord security.com CR lus or click the link in the description below thanks for watching guys uh this is well I guess a little bit more positive and also negative than the Intel Arc review go check that review out as well for a little bit on the increasing competition in the GPU space I think we uh 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