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The Ada Lovelace RTX 4090 Owners Thread

It's a wide boy! 3080 for comparison.

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Had to get a right angle power lead to be able to close my case.

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Rup said:
Same here, keeping my 4090 FE. Almost feel it was worth the £1700 I paid for it!
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I paid £1350 second hand and I'm more than happy enough despite the inflated used price.

Faster than a 5080.
More VRAM than a 5080.
Cheaper than a lot of 5080's.
It's in my case. I'm using it.
I won't be disappointed when the quite obvious 5080 Super/Ti/Super Ti comes out with more VRAM smashing the 5080 over the park.

I know there's the whole frame gen thing, but watching some reviews it seems to be a bit of a gimmick at times. Give me real frames over AI frames. Also, I know the card won't brick itself if I update the GPU drivers.

I just cannot bring myself to spend more than £2000 on a GPU despite being able to afford it comfortably. Not that I'd be able to get a 5090 if I wanted.

In my now biased opinion, I think the 4090 is a bit of a freak; those who got one when they came out must be over the moon and I think it's madness to sell it like some have to get a 5080 instead. :confused:

I'm at 3440x1440 UW so I do think as well with the current crop of games a 5090 would be wasted on me. I played GoW Ragnarök last night, compared to my 3080 it was much smoother, higher FPS and doesn't really use that much more power (I think it was about 30w more at the wall). 60-65 degrees with pretty quiet as well. I'm proper chuffed.

I guess a 4070 Super Ti or even a 4080 would have given me a large boost but they're nearly £800 or so new, and very scarce second hand, plus I wanted the VRAM headroom.

Again, I'm probably being biased but that's an insight into my thought process.
 
Looking at the current debacle that is the 5 series launch, so happy I bought my 4090 FE when I did.

Looks a veritable bargain at 'only' £1519!
 
Still going to get a 5080/90 FE when they become available & keep my 4090 FE as have 2 pc's. Yes v.poor VFM, but stuff it I like new tech.
That's why I've had a good IT career for 30 years & made much more £ than anything else an inner city kid like me could have done :)
 
Rup said:
Still going to get a 5080/90 FE when they become available & keep my 4090 FE as have 2 pc's. Yes v.poor VFM, but stuff it I like new tech.
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There's hardly any new tech in it though. Same CUDA cores (just more in 5090), same perf per W, same process. Software gives bit new stuff (MFG) but that seems like an artificial lock more than anything new in hardware and has very niche use. AI supposedly is much faster, but only in very specific use (even in games it's on the 4000 level difference with DLSS FG on vs off), nothing in mainstream ML software, etc. It's just pretty much same hardware for same (MSRP per frame) monies, with higher number. That said, I am not saying don't buy it - your monies, your decision. But also, I wouldn't be expecting anything new either, currently.
 
JonRGV250 said:
Yes, and absolutely unequivocally yes.
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Yes and no. Yes because yay, still very much relevant as if GPU didn't age at all :) But on the other hand... that's kind of sad, because that just underlines sad state of gaming hardware these days - we get very little gains in CPUs and now also in GPUs it seems. And so far nothing suggest that it will get better, quite the opposite.
 
ntemples1 said:
I almost sold my 4090 FE as they are going for so much all of a sudden, couldn't quite bring myself to do it though!!
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Gotta say its crossed my mind recently also.
Looking at eBay sold prices for my 4090FE, and the average sold price looks to be nearly £2k!

That would be free ownership for the past 2+yrs. But the massive elephant in the room is attempting to get my hands on a 5090FE at msrp. Even a few months down the line, I'm not convinced stock will be better.
 
FlyingFish said:
Gotta say its crossed my mind recently also.
Looking at eBay sold prices for my 4090FE, and the average sold price looks to be nearly £2k!

That would be free ownership for the past 2+yrs. But the massive elephant in the room is attempting to get my hands on a 5090FE at msrp. Even a few months down the line, I'm not convinced stock will be better.
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I think it crossed every 4090 owner mind ;)

It the risk that puts me off selling mine as i can't afford to lose that kind of money if something goes wrong like a charge back :(
 
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I got my 4090 on release and couldn't be more happy, still the 2nd best card and still runs everything absolutely max. I think it's pointless upgrading to a 5090 for roughly 30% gain.

Even if i did sell it for 2K, what am i going to get instead? By the time you hit the pre-order queue now it could be 6 months into this new generation before you get your card and then it would be only probably be 6 months ish before the new Ti's are released and then only 12 months for the 6000 series.

Having the 2nd best card for potentially 4 years is a steal in my opinion and then it will be upgrade time to 6000 series
 
pretty much had mine on release also then added ek block. I would have most likely sold for upgrade but seeing the disappointing performance uplift and stock availability I'm quite glad I never :)
 
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If I accidentally get a 5090 FE it will be really hard to decide whether to sell the 5090 or the 4090
I'd be in for profit on both of them lol. The 4090 cost me £1,400
 
ChrisD. said:
In my now biased opinion, I think the 4090 is a bit of a freak;
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Like the 1080 Ti and the Maxwell Titan?

ChrisD. said:
those who got one when they came out must be over the moon
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I purchased my 4090 at launch and it was immediately obvious that it was the best value card - if you could afford it. I believe I have said that a time or three. Mine - a Zotac Trinity - cost £1800. So it's cost me £18 a week so far; in another 2 years it will have cost me £9 a week and in 4 years it will have cost me £6 per week and I expect it to still be a competitive card at the mid tier.
 
ChrisD. said:
I paid £1350 second hand and I'm more than happy enough despite the inflated used price.

Faster than a 5080.
More VRAM than a 5080.
Cheaper than a lot of 5080's.
It's in my case. I'm using it.
I won't be disappointed when the quite obvious 5080 Super/Ti/Super Ti comes out with more VRAM smashing the 5080 over the park.

I know there's the whole frame gen thing, but watching some reviews it seems to be a bit of a gimmick at times. Give me real frames over AI frames. Also, I know the card won't brick itself if I update the GPU drivers.

I just cannot bring myself to spend more than £2000 on a GPU despite being able to afford it comfortably. Not that I'd be able to get a 5090 if I wanted.

In my now biased opinion, I think the 4090 is a bit of a freak; those who got one when they came out must be over the moon and I think it's madness to sell it like some have to get a 5080 instead. :confused:

I'm at 3440x1440 UW so I do think as well with the current crop of games a 5090 would be wasted on me. I played GoW Ragnarök last night, compared to my 3080 it was much smoother, higher FPS and doesn't really use that much more power (I think it was about 30w more at the wall). 60-65 degrees with pretty quiet as well. I'm proper chuffed.

I guess a 4070 Super Ti or even a 4080 would have given me a large boost but they're nearly £800 or so new, and very scarce second hand, plus I wanted the VRAM headroom.

Again, I'm probably being biased but that's an insight into my thought process.
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Yeah, it will last, plus some have 5 year warranties, my Zotac does. Enjoy your purchase mate.
 
Bought mine about 3 weeks ago for £1100 and sold my 4080 for £700. It is a Gigabyte Aorus master one. I have a 144 Mhz 34" curved monitor and the games I play are really good.

Ran this new benchmark AMD were using ( Monster Hunt Wild Things) and it averaged about 160 FPS.
 
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