The RTX 4090 is a rare sight indeed—it's a GPU that offers a massive generational leap, and it stands far, far above the rest of the lineup. The RTX 4080 Super is not without its perks, though.

Nvidia RTX 4090 vs RTX 3090 (and Ti): Price and availability. The GeForce RTX 4090’s $1,599 MSRP is significantly less than the $1,999 whopper of a price that the RTX 3090 Ti launched with.

The RTX 4090 is so powerful that I've reached a point where some tests' maxed-out settings at 4K resolutions have become CPU-limited, and that makes our usual slew of multi-GPU comparisons a bit moot.

The RTX 4090 certainly isn't a slough compared to the rest of the graphics card market, but the RTX 5090 is simply out ahead on its own, performance-wise. Winner: Nvidia RTX 5090; ...

The lowest spec new RTX Blackwell GPU is capable of frame rates akin to the $1,599 RTX 4090 of the previous generation, though likely only through new DLSS 4 AI smarts.