We said earlier that this is not a good time to buy a high-end graphics card. We expect fresh products from Nvidia, AMD and Intel in the next few months. In fact, we would be very surprised if we didn’t announce the RTX 5080 and 5090 in January.
But maybe you’re sitting here in early December thinking, “I don’t care what happens in January, I want the best graphics card I can buy today.” And that card would be the RTX 4090.
If you care about ray tracing, the differences are quite clear. With the RTX 4090 at 4K resolution, you’ll get a playable 55fps on the RTX 4090 and 103.9fps at 2K resolution. However, using another card, the RTX 4080 Super, causes a significant drop in frame rate.
There could be a huge difference when we finally see the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, but for now the RTX 4090 is the leader. Unfortunately, the cards themselves are selling out like crazy.
When I started writing this article, I intended to include links to the RTX 4090 cards, which were available at Best Buy for $1,799 and $1,819. Before I had written a few paragraphs, they were all sold out. You can probably still find an RTX 4090 for $2,300 or more, but that’s an insane price to pay.
Our advice: if you really want an RTX 4090 card in your PC, buy a ready-made desktop PC with an RTX 4090 card inside. Here are some examples (if relevant).
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