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GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition

Name: GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
Brand: NVIDIA
SKU: nvidia_rtx4090_fe

The official reference design of the RTX 4090 featuring an elegant dual-axial flow-through cooler. Sets the standard for Ada Lovelace 4K capability.

GeForce RTX 4090 product gallery (Founders Edition)

General Information

BrandNVIDIA

NameGeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition

Product Highlights

24 GB GDDR6X Memory

A 24 GB GDDR6X configuration with a 384-bit memory bus supports the RTX 4090's graphics workload capacity.

Ada Lovelace GPU Performance

The GPU features 16,384 NVIDIA CUDA cores, a 2.23 GHz base clock, a boost clock up to 2.52 GHz, and ray-tracing support.

Founders Edition Cooling and Connectivity

The reference design combines a dual-axial flow-through cooler with HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a, and PCIe 4.0 x16 interfaces.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition is an Ada Lovelace GPU with 24 GB of GDDR6X memory, a 384-bit memory bus, a dual-axial flow-through cooler, and PCIe 4.0 x16 connectivity.

Media Reviews

PCMag (Canada)4/5

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition - Review 2022

Delivers extreme 4K gaming performance and is the “tour de force” debut of Ada Lovelace, with PCMag’s main caveat being the card’s sheer excess power and high cost—only buy if you really need this much GPU.

Ars Technica

RTX 4090 review: Spend at least $1,599 for Nvidia’s biggest bargain in years

The RTX 4090 is a huge performance leap and is impressive and “fairly priced” relative to what you’re getting at its $1,599-and-up launch price, assuming you can find it near MSRP; Ars also flags that the broader generational impact for lower tiers is less clear.

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The Verge

Nvidia RTX 4090 review: a 4K beast

A ‘beast’ for 4K gaming that marks a new era in frame rates, but with downsides around cost and demanding size/power; The Verge concludes it’s hard to avoid recommending it if you want the best 4K experience.

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Notebookcheck.net

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition Review: Unrivaled 4K 100 fps behemoth for US$400 less than the RTX 3090 Ti

Highlights major generational gains from the Ada flagship, including large leads in both synthetic and compute benchmarks versus prior RTX 3090 Ti/3090 class hardware, reinforcing that the 4090 FE is effectively unrivaled at high-end 4K performance targets.

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