4090 vs 7900xtx re-test, who has aged like fine wine?

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PCGH has re-tested their original 4090 vs 7900xt review from December 2022 to see how the two GPUs now compare in March 2024

Geforce RTX 4090 vs. Radeon RX 7900 XTX: Duell der Topmodelle - Nachtest 2024 [Update]

Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 gegen AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX: Nachtest mit aktuellen Treibern - wie sehen die Machtverhältnisse 2024 aus?

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It's being quite some time and the general expectation would be that the 7900xtx has closed the gap due to driver updates, but has it actually happened?

30 games were tested, 20 with Raster and 10 with RT, results below

4090 vs 7900 XTX	Dec 2022	March 2024
Raster 1440p (20 games)	+19%	+23%
Raster 4k (20 games)	+28%	+33%
RT performance (10 games)	+53%	+69%
Cyberpunk 4k Raster	+5%	+16%
Cyberpunk 4k RT with FSR	+110%	+118%

 

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It's most likely nothing to do with drivers and more to do with more powerful cpu's around which can get more from the 4090 as it does tend to be bottlenecked more than any other card. A better test would have been the 4080 v 7900xtx as they are similar in raster.

This would be my guess as well. I already knew back at the 4090's launch it was getting somewhat bottlenecked by CPUs at the time, so since we have faster CPUs now, the 4090 runs faster than it did at launch