NVIDIA officially released the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU that gamers are looking forward to on September 20. As the core partner of NVIDIA, Sotai also launched the flagship graphics card product based on RTX 4090 GPU at the first time. Among them, the GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO has arrived in the evaluation room. Why is the RTX 4090 so powerful? What evolutions have been made in the new NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPU architecture it adopts? Let’s see our comprehensive analysis and evaluation.
Super-spec core
Sotai GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO graphics card is based on NVIDIA's latest RTX 4090 GPU. It adopts a customized TSMC 4N manufacturing process. The scale of GPU architecture has reached unprecedented strength, and has also made a huge improvement in operating frequency.
Specifically, it contains 11 GPCs, a total of 16384 CUDA units, 128 RT Cores (third generation), 512 Tensor Cores (fourth generation) and 512 texture units. The default acceleration frequency is 2520MHz, which is far beyond the 1860MHz of the previous generation RTX 3090 Ti, and it can even be higher in the game. In short, the comprehensive improvement of scale and frequency has laid a solid physical foundation for the powerful performance of the RTX 4090. The shader data throughput of
RTX 4090 not only greatly improves, but also supports Shader Executing Reordering (SER) shader execution reordering. These messy work tasks can be classified and dynamically reorganized into more efficient tasks, thereby improving the execution efficiency of shader . According to NVIDIA's official data, SER technology will bring about 2 times the shader performance improvement, and in actual tests of ray tracing games like "Cyberpunk 2077", SER also brings about 44% of the frame rate improvement.
At the same time, RT Cores of RTX 4090 has also evolved to the third generation, with a throughput of 191 TFLOPS, which is 2.8 times that of the previous generation. It also adds the "Micro Mapping Transparency Engine" (OMM) and "Micro Mesh Permutation Engine" (DMM) technologies. The function of the micromap transparency engine is to optimize fiber tracking and rendering, greatly reducing the workload of the shader, which is a great improvement in handling the ray tracing characteristics of complex objects. The specific principle of
is to bake the ray tracing characteristics into opaque masks, so that irregular shapes and translucent objects can be rendered faster and more accurately. The micro-grid replacement engine can simplify complex graphics with a large number of faces and create simpler models, thereby achieving the purpose of rendering complex geometric figures with basic triangles, greatly reducing the amount of computing and the use of video memory.
According to official data, the microgrid displacement engine can increase the BVH speed of ray tracing by up to 15 times, and the video memory usage can be reduced to the original 1/20. In short, the more complex the model, the more outstanding the optimization effect of the microgrid displacement engine.
Tensor Cores has evolved to the fourth generation. This time it is equipped with a brand new FP8 engine and tensor processing performance up to 1.32 PetaFlops (a five times higher than the previous generation). The most revolutionary progress has to be the newly added Optical Flow Accelerator, which is the core of NVIDIA DLSS3 black technology. The generation of
to RTX 40 evolved directly from the previous version 2.3 to the 3.0 version. The span proves that its improvements are revolutionary. NVIDIA even said that it represents the "new era of neural network rendering." Unlike previous DLSS, DLSS3 further introduced optical multi-frame generation technology based on the original super-resolution function. Simply put, it is possible to generate new frames through AI calculations, rather than just generating pixels like before. The frame generation work is done by the optical flow accelerator added to the fourth generation of Tensor Cores, which of course means that the "frame generation" function in DLSS3 is exclusive to RTX 40.
According to official data, DLSS3 can bring up to 4 times the game performance improvement, making 8K and panoramic ray tracing games a reality. DLSS3 includes three parts: "optical multi-frame generation technology", "super resolution" and "NVIDIA Reflex". As long as developers integrate DLSS3, they can support DLSS2 by default.DLSS3 has been supported by game developers and game engines. More than 35 games and applications will support this technology. The first batch of games and applications will be launched within October.
In addition to the above mentioned, RTX 4090 also added NVIDIA Studio optimization, support for AV1 and AI live broadcast, accelerated content creation and other improvements, which not only brings players a ray-tracing game experience with both speed and picture (even directly entered the era of 8K games), but also brings extremely efficient productivity tools to content creative designers, which can be regarded as another milestone in the history of GPU development.
's unique super flagship card king! Sotai GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO Appreciation
This new RTX 4090 product introduced to you this time belongs to the AMP EXTREME AIRO series of Sotai. This is a product tailored for gamers who pursue flagship performance. Its characteristics are strong performance, excellent heat dissipation, solid materials, and outstanding multi-faceted features.
It can be seen that Souste GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO has spent a lot of effort on appearance design. The design inspiration comes from aerodynamics, the streamlined radiator shell has a very sci-fi look, which fully reflects the user's extraordinary pursuit of personality.
Another highlight of this card in the appearance design is the creation of lighting effects. The Sotai GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO has up to 5 ARGB lighting areas on the top, front, side and back of the graphics card to create an overall effect of radiance. It is particularly worth mentioning that the ARGB lighting area on the top of the graphics card is inspired by the Rainbow Bridge in Nordic mythology. By using a translucent rainbow color coating and ARGB lighting, it can show dazzling light and show a unique beauty when the graphics card runs.
not only has many luminous areas, SPECTRA 2.0 lighting system specially designed for the RTX 40 AMP EXTREME AIRO, supports 16 million color ARGB and multiple lighting modes, and can also freely adjust and change various presets and unique dynamic lighting effects, making it easier for players to create the most personalized lighting effects.
Considering that there are many luminous hardware in the chassis now, there is a need for lighting effects linkage. Previously, it was generally implemented through the motherboard. The MCU control module of the Graphics Card of Sotai GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO outputs a 5V digital ARGB lighting control signal through the 3Pin interface, thereby connecting the chassis fan , CPU heatsink , and light bars that support the ARGB protocol are connected together and handed over to the graphics card MCU. Players can realize the lighting effects of the entire machine through Firestorm software. With such cool lighting effects, I believe that Sotai GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO can become the brightest existence in your case.
As a flagship graphics card, the materials used in Sotai GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO are luxurious. The graphics card adopts a 24+4-phase SEP power supply system , equipped with selected customized electronic components, and also uses a high-cost gold-plated 12+4Pin power supply interface, and the metal terminals are integrally gold-plated, reducing the contact impedance of the power line and interface, reducing heat generation and preventing oxidation. These configurations bring more stable and efficient power supply guarantee to the graphics card, allowing the graphics card to operate stably at high frequencies up to 2580MHz, releasing the full potential of the RTX 4090 core. The graphics card is also equipped with a high-spec power cord of 4×8Pin, which can provide up to 600W of power supply, laying the foundation for subsequent overclocking .
graphics card backplane and radiator adopt a multi-point distributed installation design, and alloy reinforces bone structural components to strengthen the overall structure, so that the PCB is subjected to uniform stress and avoid bending. The Sotai GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO also has an acceleration and silence fan dual BIOS design, which allows players to switch through the toggle button on the graphics card or in the Firestorm software.
In order to cope with the high heat generation of the flagship GPU RTX 4090, the Sotai GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO upgraded the heatsink to IceStorm 3.0. The radiator uses an ultra-large VC heat sink, covering all the core and video memory parts, and is equipped with a customized high K thermal pad , allowing it to seamlessly connect with the heat dissipation module, which can efficiently transfer the heat emitted by the GPU and video memory to the heat pipe and fins.
9 root increases the thickness of the heat pipe wall and the inner wall vein-like liquid conduction groove, upgrade and replace the heat conduction medium with a higher conductivity coefficient, increase the contact area between the condensate and the inner wall of the heat pipe to achieve faster thermal conduction cycle of the condensate. It forms an array of ice vein 2.0 heat pipes, through the precise lossless inline welding process, and through the entire heat dissipation fin module, improves the thermal conductivity and heat dissipation efficiency of the graphics card. The
graphics card also adopts a 3.5-slot design, built-in thickened and raised nickel-plated heat dissipation fin module, greatly improving the heat dissipation area and heat conductivity of the fins, and easily cope with the rigorous heat dissipation challenges. There are flow guide channels around the graphics card, and the airflow blows through all the fins to eliminate the dead corners of heat dissipation. The airflow can flow and discharge from all directions, reducing the accumulation of heat inside the graphics card.
Sotai GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO has 3 110mm bionic shield scale 2.0 fans, which not only greatly improves the area of the fan blade, but also further optimizes the curvature and scale bionic stripes of each fan blade, and greatly improves the fan air volume, air pressure and wind flow. Moreover, according to the aerodynamic principle, the graphics card increases the fan thickness, deepens the fan cover, and further concentrates the airflow, allowing the airflow generated by the fan to be more concentrated to the heat dissipation fins, and can pass through the heat dissipation fins at a higher speed, greatly improving the heat dissipation efficiency.
fans are designed with dual ball bearings to reduce fan operation friction, further reduce fan operation noise, and extend fan life. At the same time, the fan in the middle of the graphics card is rotated in reverse, which can effectively reduce turbulence and reduce fan noise. Of course, the Sotai GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO also supports the FREEZE automatic stop function to automatically stop the fan in the GPU standby state, thereby reducing unnecessary running noise and fan wear and ensuring a better user experience.
This time, with the launch of RTX40, Sotai has also upgraded the FireStorm management software, with a more intuitive GPU fine-tuning interface, and the operation is simpler and faster. It provides graphics card core , video memory frequency, voltage, fan speed, fan curve adjustment, SPECTRA 2.0 lighting effect, BIOS switching and other adjustment functions, releasing players' DIY personality.
Overall, the Sotai GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO has reached the level of super flagship in terms of power supply, cooling or personalized design, which is obviously very popular with the appetite of fever players. Next, let’s enter the practical test section that everyone is most concerned about!
RTX 4090 ray tracing performance has increased dramatically, DLSS3 is invincible
test platform
graphics card: Sotai GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
Processor: Core i9 12900K
Motherboard: ROG MAXIMUS Z690 HERO
Memory: Kingston FURY Rebel (Renegade) DDR5 6000 RGB
Hard Drive: WD_BLACK SN850 2TB
power supply: Hangjia MVP P1200
operating system: Windows 11 Professional Edition
Sotai GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO officially recommends using a 1200W power supply. In order to have sufficient power supply, we chose Hangjia MVP P1200 power supply on this test platform, and used a 4×8Pin high-spec power cord standard for connection. This power supply has a rated power of 1200W, has 2 graphics cards to assist in power supply, and provides 4 8pin interfaces. It can fully meet the power supply needs of RTX 4090 GPU with the 4×8pin to 12pin interface provided by the graphics card. Hangjia MVP P1200 adopts the latest ATX3.0 specifications and PCIE5.0 Ready standard design, passed the 80PLUS Platinum Certification, achieves CQC IV energy efficiency, has higher power supply efficiency, is more energy-saving and environmentally friendly. For such a high-end platform, such a power supply can also fully meet the requirements.
practical performance test
benchmark performance test part, the improvement of RTX 4090 compared to RTX 3090 Ti is very exaggerated. In the FireStike test, which represents the performance of DX11, the leading amplitude exceeded 80%. Moreover, with the higher the resolution, the greater the leading amplitude. It can be seen that subsystems other than GPUs have gradually experienced the bottleneck effect in the face of the powerful performance of RTX 4090. In the DX12 part, the RTX 4090's leading range is also close to 80%.In the DXR ray tracing part, RTX 4090 has more than doubled the RTX 3090 Ti. After all, the advantages of 128 third-generation ray tracing units against 84 second-generation ray tracing units are self-evident. Of course, in Port Royal, RTX 4090 is also more than 80%. The actual test part of
gaming. For flagship graphics cards such as RTX 4090, the pressure on the GPU using 1080P resolution is too small, which will only highlight the bottleneck of subsystems such as processors. Therefore, we only test at 2K and 4K resolutions. First of all, there are 2K test parts. Among the 13 games, 11 of them have obvious improvements, and the advantages of "Doom: Eternal" even reach more than 50%. Online games like "CS:GO" and "World of Warcraft: Shadowlands" do not have enough pressure on the GPU, and obviously cannot exert the power of RTX 4090, and the performance of the processor has also become a bottleneck here. Overall, the advantages of RTX 4090 over RTX 3090 Ti at 2K resolution are very obvious. It is obvious that the pressure of 2K resolution seems too weak in front of the RTX 4090, and the GPU cannot be fully exerted due to the limitations of subsystems such as processors. So let's take a look at the situation at 4K resolution.
As the resolution increases to 4K, the performance advantages of RTX 4090 are becoming more and more obvious. In "Killer 3", the RTX 4090 even leads the RTX 3090 Ti by more than 80%. This time, even games like "World of Warcraft: Shadowlands" that are seriously restricted by the processor bottleneck have also achieved a frame rate increase of more than 28% with the support of the powerful performance of RTX 4090. Overall, the average frame rate of RTX 4090's 4K games leads about 54% of the RTX 3090 Ti, but it is obvious that ordinary 4K games have not completely squeezed out the true strength of RTX 4090, and the GPU pressure is still not enough. Then, it’s time to start the ray chase game!
For players who need extreme ray tracing images and super high e-sports level frame rates, 2K resolution is a relatively balanced setting, and the pressure for GPUs like RTX 4090 is only moderate. Judging from the test situation, except for some games that have a smaller improvement, other games have basically increased by more than 50% compared to the RTX 3090 Ti, and can be increased by more than 80%. Overall, the average increase is more than 50%, which is also very considerable. Of course, this is not enough. Let’s take a look at the most extreme 4K ray tracing squeeze! We also added DLSS testing in the RTX 4090 has more fourth-generation Tensor Cores, which can just show off. Sure enough, under the super high load press of 4K+ extreme ray tracing, the advantages of RTX 4090 over the RTX 3090 Ti have been improved again. In "F1 2022" and "Having Light 2", RTX 4090 really achieves twice the performance of the RTX 3090 Ti! In many other games, RTX 4090 also maintains an advantage of 70% to 80%. In summary, whether DLSS is turned on or off, the average advantage of RTX 4090 remains at around 70%. At the same time, we can also see that after turning on DLSS, the RTX 4090 has achieved huge performance improvements in many games, allowing 4K ultimate ray tracing games to run at smooth frame rates of more than 100fps or even 200fps.
In short, judging from the current situation of popular games, only under the 4K ultimate ray tracing image quality settings can the powerful performance of RTX 4090 be tried. The previous technical analysis part of
has been introduced. The RTX 40 series also has added an optical flow accelerator. In conjunction with the DLSS3 technology released at the same time, it can generate complete picture frames through AI calculations, thereby greatly improving the frame rate and reducing frame delay. Currently, 35 games and applications have announced that they will support DLSS3 technology soon, and we selected several of them for this test. In games that support DLSS3, switch options are provided for DLSS super resolution, frame generation, and NVIDIA Reflex. These are actually the three components of DLSS3, and turning off frame generation is equivalent to using DLSS2.
From the test results, we can see that in "Cyberpunk 2077", with the frame generation support of DLSS3, the average frame rate of RTX 4090 even exceeds 2.3 times that of RTX 3090 Ti! The DLSS3 beta version of " Against the Water Cold " is even more exaggerated. The ray tracing effect of the test copy specially designed for DLSS3 is close to the movie screen, and the pressure on the GPU is abnormal. Even the RTX 4090 only has 17fps in the 4K without DLSS. After turning on the DLSS3 performance mode, the frame rate has been directly increased by nearly 4 times to 84fps. The RTX 3090 Ti without an optical flow accelerator has only 25fps in the 4K+DLSS performance mode, and the RTX 4090 is 236% ahead!
It can be seen that the more ray tracing special effects in the game, the more complex it is, and the greater the performance improvement brought by DLSS3. Therefore, facing the future panoramic ray tracing masterpieces, the RTX 40 series with optical flow accelerator supports DLSS3 is obviously a must-have. "Lyra" has relatively little pressure on graphics cards, and after turning on DLSS3 and frame generation, the RTX 4090 also has a frame rate advantage of up to about 65% compared to the RTX 3090 Ti. DMark has also released an internal beta version that supports DLSS3. It can be seen that the frame rate of RTX 4090 has increased by 200% after turning on DLSS3, and the RTX 3090 Ti supported by DLSS2 is also 117%. It can be seen that the optical flow accelerator added to the RTX 40 series is indeed a very powerful design.
We also specially compared the game picture quality supported by DLSS 3. As can be seen from the figure, AI machine learning has excellently optimized the impact of DLSS on picture quality. Even for the performance-oriented DLSS performance mode, the sharpness and details of the picture are even better than turning off the native picture of DLSS (pay attention to the texture of the taillights). This is why NVIDIA also recommends that everyone choose the DLSS3 performance mode at 4K resolution.
From the comparison picture of the Fuyunting Light Trail display copy of "Against the Cold", it can also be seen that the picture quality in DLSS 3 performance mode is also very excellent, with performance that is not inferior to native picture quality. In terms of appearance, it is even slightly better than the native picture. From this point of view, DLSS 3 has achieved both image quality and high frame rate .
For designer users, NVIDIA Studio is too familiar with. So how powerful is the RTX 4090 with 24GB ultra-large video memory as a productivity tool? We chose mainstream 3D rendering tools and video editing software to conduct actual testing.
From the test results, we can see that the rendering performance of RTX 4090 compared to the RTX 3090 Ti has almost doubled, and most projects have a performance improvement of 80% to 100%. As for the video transcoding part, since the RTX 4090 is supported by dual encoder, the transcoding speed in the clipping is almost twice that of the RTX 3090 Ti, and the speed advantage in Da Vinci is also maintained at nearly 65%. In addition, the RTX 4090 also provides AV1 encoding support, and the RTX 3090 Ti does not have a corresponding hardware encoder, of course, it cannot be supported.
In short, for 3D designers or video effects and editing workers, upgrading from RTX 3090 Ti to RTX 4090 is basically equivalent to achieving twice the processing efficiency, which is obviously very worth it.
Power consumption temperature and overclocking test
RTX 40 series adopts the TSMC 4N manufacturing process, and the frequency and energy efficiency are greatly improved compared with the previous generation. Of course, the GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO is also equipped with a powerful IceStorm 3.0 cooling system, which can ensure the stable release performance of the RTX 4090. Judging from GPU-Z, the default GPU frequency is 2580 MHz, and the highest frequency in the game can be measured to reach 2790 MHz. At the same time, it can be seen that the power wall can be adjusted upward by 10% in GPU-Z.
FurMark actual test frequency is 2685 MHz, the default test power is up to 450 W, the GPU temperature is up to 59.8℃, the junction temperature is 67.1℃, and the heat dissipation performance is excellent.
In addition, through repeated attempts and overclocking without adjusting the voltage, the measured GPU frequency in 3DMark can reach 2910 MHz, and the FireStrike Ultra score has also been further improved, which shows that its luxurious power supply and heat dissipation design is more than enough for the flagship GPU of RTX 4090. Of course, our overclocking is still relatively conservative. In theory, there is no big problem with 3000MHz on this GPU.
In addition, GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO also has a very personalized SPECTRA 2.0 lighting effect, which can be adjusted through the supporting FireStorm software. The rich preset lighting effect can fully meet the lighting needs of MOD players. Of course, players can also use FireStorm software to monitor the graphics card frequency, voltage, fan speed and other parameters to achieve the best working state and experience the fun of overclocking.
Summary: Enjoy the ultimate artifact of ray tracing games, RTX 4090 is the ultimate choice
The newly created NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPU architecture has brought revolutionary progress to the RTX 40 series. In addition to the super-large chip scale and high frequency gain obtained from the TSMC 4N process, the third-generation RT Cores and the fourth-generation Tensor Cores also shines, especially the newly added optical flow accelerator, which allows the AI frame generation of DLSS3 technology to be achieved, thereby greatly increasing the game frame rate, and ultimately bringing 2 to 4 times the performance improvement of ray tracing game, making it easy to run smoothly at the e-sports level frame rate, and also allows players to calmly deal with the panoramic ray tracing game and 8K ultra-clear game with more realistic pictures in the future. In addition, from the previous tests, we can also see that the RTX 4090 has doubled performance growth compared to the previous generation in terms of 3D rendering output and video editing. It is really a top-level efficient tool that must be bought for the productivity application of "time is money".
Therefore, for enthusiastic players who pursue the ultimate gaming experience and designer users who pursue top efficiency, RTX 4090 is undisputedly the strongest choice at present, and it is necessary to start with one step. Of course, in the super public version of RTX 4090, the Sotai GeForce RTX 4090 AMP EXTREME AIRO not only has luxurious materials and excellent heat dissipation design, but also has good overclocking space and a very personalized appearance and SPECTRA 2.0 lighting effects. It can be regarded as the ultimate flagship tailor-made for game enthusiasts and high-performance users, and is very worthy of priority.
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