
Horizon Zero Dawn only gains 10%, Watch Dogs Legion gets a 13% boost, and Red Dead Redemption performance improves by 14%. Flight Simulator performance drops 4%, again due to the CPU limited nature. It's also worth noting what DLSS 2 in Quality mode does for performance in the four games that support it. Those are the two outliers, with the remaining six games falling in a tighter range of 46% ( Far Cry 6, Red Dead Redemption 2) to 70% ( Forza Horizon 5). In the eight individual test results, the RTX 4090 beats the 3090 Ti by anywhere from 11% ( Flight Simulator) to 112% ( Total War: Warhammer 3).
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The RTX 4090 barely drops in performance going from 1080p ultra to 1440p ultra to 4K ultra - which is part of why Nvidia's DLSS 3 Frame Generation technology is so exciting, but we'll get to that in a bit. It's also important to note that the 55% average includes games that are still hitting CPU bottlenecks, like Flight Simulator. We'll have to wait a month or so to see where AMD lands, but this is Nvidia throwing down the gauntlet. That's huge and might put Nvidia's raw performance out of reach for AMD's upcoming RDNA 3 GPUs. Against AMD's best, the RX 6950 XT, in our standard gaming suite that doesn't tap into most of the Ada Lovelace architecture's extra features, you're still getting a 64% improvement. Looking at other GPUs, there's a 71% generational uplift compared to the RTX 3090 Founders Edition, and a slightly larger 77% improvement over the RTX 3080 Ti. Yeah, you might have saved $500, but if you're in the market for a GPU that costs $1,000 or more, we think this level of performance at least justifies the cost. If you just bought a 3090 Ti, this one's going to sting more than a little.

Let's pause for a moment while you check through those charts - there are nine in total, so don't just look at the overall average! But if you do just check the average, you'll see that the RTX 4090 provides a massive 55% improvement over the RTX 3090 Ti that launched six months ago.
