The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 is the ultimate GeForce graphics card. It brings a massive leap in performance, efficiency, and AI-powered graphics. Experience gaming with ultra-high performance, incredibly detailed virtual worlds, unprecedented productivity, and new ways to create. Powered by the Nvidia Ada Lovelace architecture and accompanied by 24 GB of GDDR6X memory, it delivers the ultimate experience for gamers and creators.
It is aimed at gamers, content creators, and designers who want to get the best possible graphics and performance from their computers, as it supports HDR image and recording with resolutions up to 8K, 4 times more pixels than 4K resolution, and 16 times more than Full HD resolution.
As a leading brand for True Gaming hardware, MSI is proud to be part of the creation of NVIDIA's new GPUs, the GeForce RTX 4090.
Game in Style
The MSI GeForce RTX 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G graphics card features the upgraded TRI FROZR 3 cooling system to operate at optimal performance when playing your favorite games or working with content creation applications. The new MSI GAMING series of graphics cards is designed to become the favorite series of gamers, esports players, livestream broadcasters, and more.
Quantum Performance
The new GeForce RTX 40-series is based on the more energy-efficient NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, which represents a "quantum leap" in both performance and AI-powered graphics. The new SMs (Streaming Multiprocessors) offer up to 2x higher performance and up to 2x higher energy efficiency, with 4th generation Tensor cores providing up to 2x AI performance and 3rd generation RT (Ray Tracing) cores delivering 2x Ray Tracing performance compared to the past.
Ray Tracing
The NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture fully unleashes the capabilities of ray tracing technology, which simulates the behavior of light in the real world. With the unique power of the new GeForce RTX 40 series and the 3rd generation RT cores (featuring the new "Opacity Micromap Engine" and "Micro-mesh Engine" hardware units), you will experience gaming like never before!
Nvidia DLSS 3
The performance multiplier, powered by AI
DLSS is a revolutionary breakthrough in AI graphics that massively boosts performance. With the help of the new 4th generation Tensor cores and the optical flow accelerator in the GeForce RTX 40 Series, DLSS 3 analyzes successive frames and motion data from the new optical flow accelerator 40 to create additional high-quality frames.
DLSS Super Resolution
Increases performance for all GeForce RTX cards, using AI to produce higher resolution frames from lower resolution input. DLSS collects samples from multiple lower resolution images and uses motion data and feedback from previous frames to reconstruct native quality images.
Nvidia Reflex
The Nvidia Reflex and GeForce RTX 40 Series cards provide the lowest latency and the best responsiveness for the ultimate competitive advantage. Built to optimize and measure system latency, Reflex offers faster target acquisition, quicker reaction times, and the best aiming precision for competitive games.
Nvidia Studio
Creativity with AI
Take your creative projects to the next level with Nvidia Studio. With new dedicated hardware, the RTX 40 series unlocks unparalleled performance in 3D rendering, video editing, and graphic design. Enjoy feature-rich RTX accelerations in top creative applications, world-class Nvidia Studio drivers designed to provide maximum stability, and a suite of exclusive tools that harness the power of RTX for AI-supported creative workflows.
Nvidia Broadcast
Your AI-powered home studio
The NVIDIA Broadcast application transforms any room into a home studio, taking your live streams, voice chats, and video calls to the next level with powerful AI effects such as noise removal and room sound, virtual background, and much more.
Nvidia Encoder
Steal the show with incredible graphics and high-quality live streaming, without any stuttering. With the help of the 8th generation encoder (NVENC), the GeForce RTX 40 series ushers in a new era of high-quality broadcasting with next-generation AV1 encoding support, designed to provide greater performance than H.264, unlocking stunning streams at higher resolutions. Additionally, exclusive optimizations in your favorite live streaming applications give your audience your best self, every time.
Nvidia Omniverse
Connect your creative worlds with a universe of possibilities
The Nvidia Omniverse functions as a hub for connecting the existing 3D workflow, replacing linear pipelines with live synchronization creation, allowing you to create like never before and at speeds you have never experienced.
Nvidia Canvas
The application that brings artificial intelligence to painting
Use AI to turn simple brushstrokes into realistic landscape images. Quickly create backgrounds or speed up the exploration of your ideas, so you can spend more time visualizing your concepts.
Game Ready Drivers
GeForce Game Ready drivers provide the best possible experience for your favorite games. They are finely tuned in collaboration with developers and have been extensively tested on thousands of hardware configurations for maximum performance and reliability.
GeForce Experience
Capture and share videos, screenshots, and live streams with your friends. Keep your drivers up to date and optimize your game settings. GeForce Experience allows you to do all that. It is the essential companion to your GeForce graphics card.
8K HDR Gaming
Connect, play, capture, and watch with exceptional HDR at resolutions up to 8K with the GeForce RTX 4090. Capture HDR footage up to 8K with the GeForce Experience ShadowPlay feature and play smoothly with AV1 decoding.
With incredible power and a massive 24 GB memory, it can handle many popular games in 8K. It supports 8K 60Hz HDR and variable refresh rate (VRR) as defined in HDMI 2.1, all with a single connection cable from your computer to the 8K display.
Virtual Reality
Virtual reality offers some of the most immersive experiences on a gaming PC. But getting the right VR is challenging. With actual screen resolutions at 4K and increasing, minimum refresh rates of 90 Hz, and high latency tolerances, VR is one of the most demanding PC applications in the world and requires the most powerful GPUs in the world.
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX GPUs give you the performance you need to power top titles on the latest VR units. Additionally, they feature technology to crank up the settings for truly impressive, immersive gameplay.
Excellent Cooling System
The TRI-FROZR 3 is one of MSI's most advanced air cooling systems, consisting of an extremely dense heatsink with dozens of fins, enhanced by a copper, nickel-plated base that transfers heat from various components (e.g., GPU, memory chips) to the Core Pipes (MSI's name for heatpipes) and from there to the heatsink fins to be dissipated with the help of fans. The latter are TORX FAN 5.0 type with Dual Ball Bearings. The technology offers +23% more airflow compared to an axial-tech fan and 10% more than a TORX FAN 4.0 fan. The card is also equipped with a metal backplate.
Lower Power Losses
The graphics card integrates high-performance HCIs (High-Efficiency Carbonyl Inductors) into the PCB, while the high-energy efficiency Smart Power Stages (SPS) allow for more precise current regulation/control with lower resistance. The result is lower power losses and lower operating temperatures. The Dual BIOS switch allows the user to choose between quiet operation and the highest possible performance.
Stay Informed About Everything
The exclusive MSI Center software provides you with real-time information about the status of the graphics card - e.g., clock speeds, temperatures, operating voltages, fan rotation rates, and much more, to avoid unnecessary workload for your system. It also allows you to create profiles with your settings for each game individually, adjust the lighting, etc. (Gaming Mode, Smart Priority, User Scenario, Smart Image Finder, MSI Companion, Noise Cancellation, System Diagnosis, MSI Afterburner, etc.)
MSI Afterburner
MSI Afterburner is the most widely used graphics card software for a good reason. It is reliable, works on any card, gives you full control, allows you to monitor your graphics card in real-time, and best of all: it is completely free!
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Top-end card with excellent performance, ample Vram for most professional applications, good thermal behavior, and similar power consumption to the previous generation, which is perhaps the most impressive. It is outrageously, offensively overpriced, and yet still offers better value for money than the 4080, which is EVEN more overpriced. It fits in most good cases, but you may need to remove the drive bay. I had to buy it because I urgently needed to set up a new PC for work. Otherwise, I would have completely skipped this generation, it's cursed. Nvidia sells its cards at scalper prices during the chip shortage and crypto boom, while AMD releases cards with a 110oC hotspot and claims it's working as intended (???). If you're not in a hurry, I would advise waiting for the next generation to see if things improve a bit. By then, you'll also have better options for ATX 3.0 power supplies and more comprehensive PCIE 5 support.
The card is a HUGE upgrade from the 3080 Ti I had before. Paired with an i7 13700K.
With the 3080 Ti in Microsoft Flight Simulator and all settings on Ultra, I had 60-70 FPS at 2K and significant stuttering in heavy scenes. With the RTX 4090, I have 110-120 FPS at 4K, with all settings on Ultra and DLSS (frame generation) enabled, which is significantly improved from version 2.
In other titles (Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Witcher 3 Next-Gen, Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered), I consistently have over 144 FPS without drops. The cooling is quite good in terms of temperatures. I've seen it reach 68-72 degrees under heavy load max.
In terms of performance, I am thoroughly satisfied with the card.
On the downside, its enormous size takes up 3-4 PCIe slots. This specific one has a support bracket to keep it straight, which is a plus. In certain titles, it has noticeable coil whine (mainly in menus where there is no frame cap), which disappears or is almost inaudible with a good fan curve (covered by the fans). Of course, coil whine tends to decrease after a period of use in many cards, so we'll see.
Overall, the card is a powerful upgrade from previous generations due to DLSS 3, frame generation, and the new RTX version. Someone who wants to go for the 4080 is better off waiting for its price to drop and getting the 4090 in my opinion.