NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition Review The GPU

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 FE Specifications

Just to make it a bit easier, here are the key features and specs for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition:

Specifications

• GPU: AD102
• Shader Units: 16384
• Video Memory: 24GB GDDR6X
• Memory Bus: 384-bit
• Engine Clock Boost: 2520 MHz (Reference: 2520 MHz)
• Memory Clock: 21 Gbps
• PCI Express: 4.0
• Display Outputs
• 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
• 1x HDMI 2.1
• Recommended Power Supply: 850W
• DirectX: 12 API feature level 12_2
• OpenGL: 4.6
• Cooling: Triple cooling fans
• Slot Size: 3
• Card Length: 304 mm x 137 mm x 61 mm (12″ x 5.4″ x 2.4”)

Our test setup

Our workstation has been used for many of our reviews and is our current test setup.

• Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero
• CPU: Intel Core i9-12900K (8x Performance Cores / 8x Efficient Cores – 16x Threads)
• RAM: 2x Sticks – 64GB DDR5 5,200 MHz
• CPU Cooling: EK Water Cooling
• Storage: OS Gen 4 4TB, two other 8TB SSD’s for storage
• OS: Windows 11 Pro fully updated
• Case: Open Bench Table

We will use Benchmate to see a read-out of the test system.

Here is the obligatory GPU-Z shot of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 FE:

GPU-Z shows the main stats of our NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 FE.

Let us move on and start our testing with compute-related benchmarks.