of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Pole position at our company GPU Benchmark Hierarchy Ranked as fastest best graphics cardThe price is also high, and the first time in stock will be sold out soon. But if you have 4090 cards in stock and you can afford it, which one should you buy? (AIO) Combine your cooling solution with Nvidia’s current monarch. His other 4090 cards are in preparation, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X Stand up to competition.
Considering the fact that modern CPUs only use around 250W but recommend at least 240mm of liquid cooling, you might wonder how MSI cards can manage 450W. It works very well because it’s not just about cooling capacity, it’s about heat density. AMD’s Zen 4 chip is capable of 170W (more with boost), but this is mostly focused on his computing chiplet, which is only 70mm^2. Intel’s Core i9-12900K with a 215mm^2 chip he draws 125W and peaks at 250W. In contrast, the AD102 GPU is 608mm^2 in size, so it has a higher wattage, but a much lower heat density than either of these CPUs.
In general, cooling silicon using about 1 W/mm^2 is not too difficult. AMD’s Zen 4 approaches 2 W/mm^2, while Intel’s CPU under load is around 1W/mm^2. A 450W AD102 would be about 0.75 W/mm^2. Of course, the chip has hot spots — the cache doesn’t use as much power as the various ALUs — but we’re not too worried about the MSI Suprim Liquid X’s cooling capabilities.
What’s the real question? Cooled by a 240mm radiator Better however, Asus RTX 4090 ROG Strix or even reference RTX 4090 Founders Edition? Based on our test results, the answer is no. Performance is basically tied to Founders Edition, which is theoretically $150 cheaper card.
I’m not saying MSI cards are bad. Getting a dual-slot card, despite having to accommodate a 240mm radiator, is a nice change of pace from all the 3- to 4-slot models we’ve seen. It might just fit in a smaller case thanks to the separate .Furthermore, some people think that liquid cooling just looks cooler, and depending on the actual price, it might be worth the extra cost. I can’t.
| graphics card | MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X | Asus RTX 4090 ROG Strix OC | RTX 4090 Founders Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| architecture | AD102 | AD102 | AD102 |
| SMS | 128 | 128 | 128 |
| GPU shader | 16384 | 16384 | 16384 |
| Boost Clock (MHz) | 2625 | 2610 (game mode) | 2520 |
| 2640 (OC mode) | |||
| VRAM Speed (Gbps) | twenty one | twenty one | twenty one |
| VRAM (GB) | twenty four | twenty four | twenty four |
| TFLOPS FP32 (Boost) | 86 | 85.5 | 82.6 |
| TFLOPS FP16 (FP8) | 688 (1376) | 684 (1368) | 661 (1321) |
| Bandwidth (GBps) | 1008 | 1008 | 1008 |
| TDP (Watts) | 480 | 450 | 450 |
| size | Card: 280x139x42mm | 358×149×70mm | 304×137×61mm |
| Radiator: 275x117x54mm | |||
| weight | 2336g | 2508g | 2186g |
| Official manufacturer’s suggested retail price | $1,749 | $1,999 | $1,599 |
As shown in the table above, we have currently completed testing with three RTX 4090 cards, with more cards in development.Once those tests and reviews are finished, put the performance results into the main Nvidia RTX 4090 Review (page 9). So if you stop by to read this article in a few weeks or months and want to see the results for all the 4090 cards we tested, head over there.
As usual, the only differences between the spec sheets of various cards are clock speeds, TBP (total board power) ratings, and impact on compute performance. The MSI card features the highest default clock yet at 2625 MHz, beating his 2520 MHz boost clock on the reference card by 4.2%. However, it should be noted that in practice, above he typically saw clock speeds of 2750-2790 MHz when playing games with all three cards.
Read more about how the RTX 4090 works here Nvidia Ada Lovelace Architecture DetailsWe also ran quite a few additional tests with the RTX 4090 Founders Edition. Professional content creation workload When DLSS 3 testOur AIB card review will focus on card design and aesthetics, as well as other additional features, as the differences we see in performance are relatively limited.
