So if Nvidia are "out fine wine'ing" AMD, does this imply that the 4090 was released before it was ready?!
Anyway, the real problem is that the suite has change do much that benchmarks are not comparable.
AMDs Radeon RX 7900 XTX und Radeon RX 7900 XT im Spieletest mit zahlreichen Raytracing-Benchmarks in vier Auflösungen.
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Raytracing-Benchmarks & Leistungsindex
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For raster, only A Plague Tale: Requiem, Cyberpunk 2077, and Forza Horizon 5 were in both, and the scene for Cyberpunk 2077 is not the same (going from
PCGH's Red Light Alley in 2023 to
PCGH's Dog Days in 2024.
So directly comparable for raster we only have those two and at 4K min FPS we got (2023 first, 2024 last)
APT: Requiem, for the 4090: 64.0 to 71.0 so nearly 11% better.
APT: Requiem, for the 7900 XTX: 49.0 to 51 so about 4%.
FH5 for the 4090: 117.0 to 118.0 so about 1% better.
FH5 for the 7900 XTX: 83.0 to 95 so about 14%.
For RT scenes: Well I gave up after comparing the only common games (CB2077, DL2, and Metro Exodus) since not only did CB2077 have a different scene, Dying Light 2 uses the same 'scene' but different settings, and Metro Exodus using the same scene but again changing the settings.
CPUs? Stated is 12900K vs 13900KS (implying P cores only for both).
And the CPU was changed too, so not really a scientific comparison.
What we can sort of say is that for new games the 4090 is going really well as most of the suite difference is newer games.