Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU benchmark leak has some folks disappointed

Nvidia’s RTX 4090 graphics card, which will hit shelves now in less than two weeks, has been spotted in new leaked benchmarks that have caused a bit of disappointment in some people.

The GPU was tested in the Geekbench CUDA test as stated by Benchleaks on Twitter (who Wccftech (opens in new tab) spotted, via VideoCardz (opens in new tab)).

As always, let’s remain skeptical and always keep in mind that fakery could be in play, but the two reported scores for the RTX 4090 are 417,713 and 424,332, so essentially around 420,000.

Judging by Geekbench CUDA comparisons, this makes the RTX 4090 nearly 80% faster than its predecessor, the 3090, and about 60% faster than the fastest Ampere card, the RTX 3090 Ti.

Note that the PC in which the Nvidia flagship GPU was tested had a Ryzen 9 7950X processor (in an X670E motherboard) and was equipped with 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, so the supporting cast in this case was as it were strong. (As a side note, the 7950X achieved an average boost of very close to 5.7GHz through the benchmarking).

Analysis: don’t jump too fast and don’t judge too soon

Geekbench CUDA is of course a measurement of heavy workloads (data center), so professional users will want to see these results more, not gamers. But it’s still interesting for all parties to see the relative strength – spice, of course – of the RTX 4090 versus the RTX 3090 in the first non-Nvidia benchmark.

Some believe this is a good indication of the kind of margin performance we’ll get for standard gaming – meaning gridded, as opposed to ray-traced, the latter of which was Nvidia’s main focus for pre-release marketing prior to the RTX. 4090 on sale. (Well, that and how much DLSS 3 will improve performance in a huge way, for games that support it anyway).

Nvidia has said that the next generation of Lovelace GPUs will be able to double the grid performance compared to Ampere graphics cards, but that’s the best case scenario, and the gains for many PC games may fall slightly below that, and as mentioned may be. in line with what we see here for these Geekbench CUDA runs.

We’ll see, but really, we wouldn’t read too much into this leak – it’s just one test, after all, and not a widely trusted statistic either.

All in all, we’ll have to save judgment for when we can fully evaluate the powers of the 4090 itself across a range of different games and, of course, software. (Remember that this GPU is really more aimed at creative pros willing to dig deep into their pockets to cover its exorbitant price tag than avid gamers – but the latter type of buyer, who must have the best gaming GPU, certainly exists. , it’s just a niche category).