Nvidia’s monstrous RTX 4090 is finally here, and it’s powerful (just read our Review of RTX4090). It’s so powerful, in fact, that there aren’t a lot of games that truly showcase the GPU’s power. The RTX 4090, on the other hand, is the most powerful. Best graphics card you can buy, but you’ll want to install a few key games to show off what the GPU is capable of.
There are a few games that still push the RTX 4090, though many of our recommendations come on the back of Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS). DLSS 3 includes a frame generation setting that’s only available on RTX 40-series GPUs, which helps a lot of games that are traditionally limited by your processor hit a high frame rate.
Cyberpunk 2077 Even two years later, it is still a very demanding game. Prior to the RTX 4090, you’d have to cheat in some way or another to get a smooth frame rate with all the visual bells and whistles. The RTX 4090 is now able to crack 40 frames per second (fps) at native 4K with full ray tracing. No more. RTX 3090 Ti.
It’s an impressive tech showcase of just how powerful the RTX 4090 really is, and it’s sure to become more impressive once Cyberpunk 2077‘s Overdrive ray tracing mode is here. After you’ve sat down to actually play, DLSS 3 can be used to increase your frame rate even when ray tracing is turned up. With DLSS 3, our 40 fps average jumped to 135 fps, all at 4K with ray tracing set on the highest setting. Other GPUs aren’t even close.
Microsoft Flight Simulator The game is a poor way to showcase a new graphics cards, but the RTX 4090 makes it a good exception. The game now supports DLSS 3. This is a great feature that allows you to really showcase your frame generation abilities. Microsoft Flight Simulator. This game is well-known for its brutality. CPU limit, meaning that even the ultra-powerful RTX 4090 can’t stretch its legs.
DLSS 3 solves this problem by generating new frames. Even if your processor is fully limited, upscaling tech can still double your frame rates by simply creating a new fram every other frame. Microsoft Flight Simulator may be a terrible showcase of graphics power normally, but with DLSS 3 now available, it’s the best way to show off the RTX 4090.
Control It was one of the first showcases of Ray Tracing and Nvidia’s DLSS, and three years on, it’s remarkable how well the game runs on a variety of hardware. It can still be a challenge for high-end computers. DLSS has helped graphics cards reach 60 fps when they have been set to maximum ray tracing at 4K. Except for the RTX 4090.
Control hasn’t received a DLSS 3 update, and it likely won’t, but the RTX 4090 marks an important milestone for the game. It’s the only graphics card right now that can maintain a high frame rate in the game without help from upscaling, assuming you want full ray tracing settings and you’re running the game at 4K.
Similar to Control,The RTX 4090 reaches a significant milestone Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s the only GPU that runs the game well above 100 fps at 4K with maxed-out settings. And it’s quite a bit ahead of that mark. In our testing, we found that the RTX 4090 could produce nearly 130 fps. This is 52% more than the RTX 3090T.
With the assistance of DLSS — the second version without frame generation, in this case — you can push that up to the 150 fps mark. That’s a big deal if you’re running a 4K display at a 144Hz refresh. Prior to the RTX 4090, you simply couldn’t take advantage of that high of a refresh rate in Red Dead Redemption 2. You can.
Marvel’s Spider-Man is deceptively demanding. DLSS can be used to maintain a high frame rate on most GPUs. AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR)You will need serious power to run the game at full ray trace rate at 4K. The RTX 4090 is up for the task, which shouldn’t come as a surprise, but we’re recommending it because the game supports DLSS 3.
Flying over Manhattan at a higher speed is better. DLSS 3 provides the key to that higher frame rate. Similar to Microsoft Flight Simulator Marvel’s Spider-Man It is also notoriously CPU-limited. DLSS 3 avoids this issue.
F1 22 You need a lot power to run at 4K with ray tracing turned on, but that’s not why we’re recommending it. Like Marvel’s Spider-Man Microsoft Flight Simulator Your processor limits the game’s performance. It now supports DLSS 3. This allows you to get around the bottleneck and run your game at a higher framerate.
F1 has been an indicator of PC gaming performance for years. F1 22 is no different. It’s a great showcase for new PC hardware in general, but DLSS 3 really pushes it over the edge for the RTX 4090.
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