NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition Overclocked

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Gameplay Performance

We are going to focus on the 4K gameplay performance with the Overclocked NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition video card.  We will include DLSS and FSR performance on the same graph in the games that are supported.  We will use DLSS on NVIDIA GPUs and FSR on AMD GPUs.  Ray Tracing performance will be shown on a separate page.  For video card comparisons we are using an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX video card and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FE video card.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.0

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.0 was released on October 27, 2022, on the PC and uses the IW 9.0 gaming engine. The game supports all upscaling methods, including NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Image Scaling, AMD FSR 1.0, AMD Fidelity FX CAS, and Intel XeSS. We use the highest quality option of each. We customize every graphics setting to the maximum value for the best image quality and enable everything. We use the built-in benchmark.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition Overclocked Call of Duty Modern Warfare II

In Call of Duty Modern Warfare II, we are running the game at 4K and maximum graphics settings. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 FE performs very well and is playable at 126FPS at 4K. This is 4% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 68% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FE. When we overclocked the GeForce RTX 4090 FE performance increased by 9% and now we are getting 137FPS at 4K. At the overclocked performance it is 13% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 83% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FE. DLSS performance has also increased with overclocking and brings it to 176FPS at 4K.

F1 2022

F1 2022 was released on June 28th, 2022 on the PC and uses Codemasters Ego engine. The game supports Ray Tracing, DLSS, AMD FidelityFX, and FSR. We are going to run the game with the highest quality settings of “Ultra High” and TAA+FidelityFX. We will enable DLSS and FSR as needed at the Quality setting for both. We will utilize the built-in benchmark in the Imola track, in dry conditions with a far-chasing cam.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition Overclocked F1 2022

In F1 2022 we are running at 4K and maximum graphics settings, the GeForce RTX 4090 FE is able to give us a very playable gameplay experience at over 200FPS. At 208FPS the RTX 4090 FE is 20% faster than the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 46% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FE. Overclocking the GeForce RTX 4090 FE improves performance by 8% and brings performance to 224FPS. At 224FPS the GeForce RTX 4090 FE is now 29% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 58% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FE. DLSS performance is improved by 6% and brings performance up to nearly 260FPS. This just edges out Radeon RX 7900 XTX FSR performance at 4K.

Dying Light 2

Dying Light 2 was released in February 2022 on the PC and uses Techland’s C-Engine. The game supports Ray Tracing, DLSS and FSR2. We use the built-in preset to set “HIGH QUALITY” which sets the highest game graphics, without Ray Tracing. We manually enable DX12 and ASYNC Compute. We use the built-in benchmark.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition Overclocked Dying Light 2

In Dying Light 2 we can run the game at 4K with the highest settings, sans ray tracing, on the GeForce RTX 4090 FE and get 130FPS, for a super smooth gameplay experience. At 130FPS the GeForce RTX 4090 FE is 38% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 50% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FE. Overclocking the RTX 4090 FE improves performance by just 6% and brings performance up to 138FPS, so that doesn’t add a whole lot for this game. At 138FPS the RTX 4090 FE is 46% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 59% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. DLSS improves by only 3% with overclocking. With DLSS and overclocked the RTX 4090 FE is 41% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX with FSR2.

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was released in December 2020 and uses the REDengine 4. We have the game patched to version 1.61 and utilize the built-in benchmark. We test using the Graphics Preset option to set graphics settings, mainly “Ultra”. This game supports DLSS and FSR2.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition Overclocked Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 is very playable at 4K and “Ultra” settings on the GeForce RTX 4090 FE which can provide 85FPS. At 85FPS the RTX 4090 FE is 21% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 48% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FE. Overclocking the RTX 4090 FE has improved performance by 5%, bringing it to 89FPS. At 89FPS the RTX 4090 FE is 27% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 55% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. DLSS performance improves by 4% with overclocking.

Watch Dogs Legion

Watch Dogs Legion was released on the PC in October of 2020 and uses the Disrupt game engine. We utilize the built-in benchmark for testing. We have the HD Texture pack installed and enabled for testing. We use the built-in graphics preset of “Ultra” for testing. This game supports DLSS upscaling.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition Overclocked Watch Dogs Legion

In Watch Dogs Legion we are able to play this game very smoothly at 4K and “Ultra” settings at 116FPS on the GeForce RTX 4090 FE. At 116FPS the RTX 4090 FE is 20% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 61% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FE. Overclocking the GeForce RTX 4090 FE improves performance by 5% and brings it up to 122FPS. At 122FPS the RTX 4090 FE is 26% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 69% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FE. DLSS performance did not change with overclocking, however.

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