MSI GeForce RTX 4090

Wie schlagen sich die neuen CPUs Ryzen 5 9600X und Ryzen 7 9700X im Gaming auf einer Grafikkarte vom Typ Radeon RX 7900 XTX im Vergleich zur GeForce RTX 4090? Wie reagieren die CPUs auf schnelleren Speicher bis hinauf zu DDR5-8000 in Spielen? Der Test liefert die Antworten.

Die GeForce RTX 4090 ist gelauncht, mit dem 12VHPWR-Anschluss muss man schauen, wie sich das so weiterentwickelt und genau deshalb machen wir heute mal den Schwenk zu den angenehmen Seiten des Lebens. Immer nur Stecker wäre ja langweilig. Und wer gerade so richtig flüssig ist, könnte sich ja auch die MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM LIQUID X leisten, die ihrerseits ja flüssig gekühlt wird. Die Karte nutzt eine Hybrid-Kühlung in Form einer All-in-One Kompaktwasserkühlung und einen Luftikus für das schlanke Hinterteil der Platine. Kann man so machen. Wie gut das dann performt, sehen wir gleich noch. Ich teste übrigens alle Spiele im Gaming-Modus und habe auf den Silent-Mode bewusst verzichtet. Ich glaube auch nicht, dass jemand so viel Geld für diese Karte ausgibt, nur um sie dann künstlich zu begrenzen.

Wrapping things up, Nvidia hit a home run with performance. From the raw raster improvements to DLSS 3.0, FPS hasn’t been higher, and graphics cards incredibly capable. However, that comes at a price. On the front end, an RTX 4090 costs you around $1499 dollars for an FE version, more for custom high-end models like the Suprim, Strix, and Aorus from card partners. The other side where it can bite you is with power consumption and heat. With power use reaching 450W (and more) the cards get thicker, or you need a liquid-cooled solution like the Suprim Liquid X we have from MSI. The card we have takes the monster Nvidia created and takes it to a whole different level. With a 240mm radiator to control the room heater, temperatures are well under control, and it does so while being relatively quiet. To get the most out of these cards and get all of the boost bins you can, watercooling is the way to go. If this card is left to sit in the 80s as the 3090 Ti’s did (at least, the Suprim X I have), you’ll lose a few bins to keep the temperature at the default limit. The most painful part to swallow is the price. People, it doesn’t seem like they are coming down anytime soon. At almost $1600, it’s ‘only’ $100 more than the RTX 3090. From a performance per dollar perspective, it’s a lot better, but tell that to our bank account that doesn’t count frames, just dollars. On top of the expense, it’s not easy to mitigate 450W worth of heat, but the Suprim Liquid X’s AIO does a great job of it. In order to run this card, you’ll need a beefy power supply with four PCIe 6+2 connectors and a minimum of 850W. Most (all?) cards that require the new PCIe 5.0 connector will come with a high-quality adapter to use, or if you’re connector averse, you’ll need to purchase a new power supply that has the connector attached natively (will be ATX 3.0 spec). Price notwithstanding, our overall take on these cards is that they are one hell of an improvement over the previous generation. All of the updated hardware and DLSS 3.0 combine to form, by far, the fastest graphics card we’ve tested. Even without DLSS in use the card is 14% faster at 1080p, 32% faster at 2560×1440, and 60% faster at 4K UHD in our tests which is one of the more significant jumps we’ve seen (in higher resolution) in generations. Add the DLSS 3.0 in and ray tracing improvements, and it makes AMD’s job to beat it on a performance front incredibly difficult. While I wouldn’t rush out to get one of these if I had a 3000 series and it was performing well for my needs, those with older cards have a real reason to upgrade if the price points for all of these cards don’t get in the way.

This is the gear that everybody in the enthusiast crowd is waiting to see; board partner cards, all custom, tweaked and cooled more satisfactory, the SUPRIM Liquid X certainly fits that description with that AIO liquid cooler mounted on top of that ADA GPU. In a perfect world where money and energy isn't an object, this easily is my favourite card to one in the 4090 series. I like products as silent as they can be. So from a hardware point of view, everything ... really everything MSI did here has been done right. Even the 150 USD price premium is a fair one considering the price range we're in. The looks are fantastic as well with a nice two-tone brushed aluminium design on the cooler shroud and backplate, giving it an alien look. Except for the required NVIDIA-designed adaptor, which transforms four 8-pin PCIe power connectors into a 12+4 pin 12VHPWR. Three DisplayPort and one HDMI are available as video outputs. A sleek, nearly three-dimensional-looking backplate with a brushed aluminium finish is included. A dual-BIOS switch is located close to the power jack, of course, we say leave that fracker at silent mode as performance wise it ain;t gonna matter and your GPU at 65 Degrees C under heavy load is already excellent. A good chunk of extra shader cores, nearly double performance Raytracing and Tensor cores, and underlying technologies like Shader Execution Reordering (SER) and DLSS 3.0 make the new product and Series 4000 shine.

Manual OC worked very well on the Suprim Liquid X, just like on the Suprim X. Both cards reached over 500 FPS after manual OC—a new record. The differences between all RTX 4090 cards so far are fairly small though, and the silicon lottery also plays a role here. According to MSI, the RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X will sell for $1750, which is a surprisingly small increase of $150 over the NVIDIA Founders Edition baseline pricing for RTX 4090. The air-cooled Suprim X goes for $1700, so an extra $50 for the watercooler is very reasonable. We're not aware of any model that sells for below $1600. These $150 get you 3% higher performance out of the box, a fantastic water cooler, nice RGB lighting and a dual BIOS. What makes the Liquid X stand out is that it takes up only two slots in your system, even the NVIDIA Founders Edition is triple slot. Of course you still need the space to fit the radiator, but it's an interesting alternative to class air-cooled cards. What I really like is that MSI is slowing down the pump's speed when idle, which eliminates the permanent "hum" noise that all other GPU watercooling solutions had (that I'm aware of).

We unbox the next-gen ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC Edition and MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM LIQUID and SUPRIM X graphics cards... oh boy!

MSI debuted the SUPRIM line of graphics cards as its flagship custom-design products, positioned a segment above the Gaming series. It essentially de-cluttered the segment for MSI, as it effectively replaced both the Lightning and Gaming Z brand extensions into a single one, with a significantly different design. The MSI RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid X has the same "exalted" appearance as air-cooled cards from the RTX 30-series, with a 2-tone brushed-aluminium appearance on the cooler shroud and backplate. The card gets the highest state of factory-overclocking from MSI and the VRM to match it. In its liquid-cooled avatar, this card features a 240 mm AIO to pull heat from the GPU and memory, while a set of heatsinks ventilated by a single 100 mm fan, cool the rest of the card. The advantage of going liquid is in the thickness.

At the end of the day, the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X is an excellent graphics card, an absolute beast! It is one of the best RTX 4090 cards in the market, and you simply can’t go wrong with this graphics card.

From a technological point of view, the GeForce RTX 4090 just works exceptionally well and fast. It's 100 USD more expensive than the founder edition, but you can tell where the money goes. The SUPRIM series of graphics cards was introduced by MSI as a premium custom-design product above the Gaming series. MSI RTX 4090 SUPRIM X boasts a two-tone brushed aluminium design on the cooler shroud and backplate, giving it an exotic look. Except for the required NVIDIA-designed adaptor, which transforms four 8-pin PCIe power connectors into a 12+4 pin 12VHPWR.Three DisplayPort and one HDMI are available as video outputs. A sleek, three-dimensional backplate with a brushed aluminium finish is included. A dual-BIOS switch is located close to the power jack. ADA GPU architecture can perform skillfully and excellently; the GeForce RTX 4090 is a powerhouse. A good chunk of extra shader cores, nearly double performance Raytracing and Tensor cores, and underlying technologies like Shader Execution Reordering (SER) and DLSS 3.0 make the new product and Series 4000 shine. The GeForce RTX 4090 AD102 GPU has 76.3B transistors; I mean OMG, staggering values. Starting at $1599; yes, the price is an unfavourable factor, and the amount of energy used as explained, is also something to ponder about. Both are high for this product to make any sense. For this graphics card to make any sense, you must play games in Ultra HD or at least start at a monitor resolution of 2560x1440. We also know that because the product is in a very narrow niche, the two negatives do not have to make sense to a lot of you as enthusiast components are a class of their own. Regardless of it all, I live and thrive on exciting technology; I like this piece of hardware inside a PC, though, because it is a magnificent product no matter how you look at it. The RTX 4090 will exhaust a lot of heat, so ensure you have a lot of ventilation. The card is big and heavy (2.4kg), but still looks great, but you need to make sure you can fit this inside your PC. The performance, man, that performance, it is all good. Take Flight Simulator 2020 combined with DLSS 3.0, you can fly at 100+ FPS in the higher resolution now. Cyberpunk at UHD with raytracing and DLSS quickly passes 100 FPS. This is an Ultra HD card, and it shines in that area, whether shading (regularly rendered games) or hybrid ray-tracing + DLSS is used. It is a purebred stallion but needs a lot of power and will only cater to a small group of people. Should you buy this product? Well, from a more economical point of view, you would be better off with a to-be-released GeForce RTX 4070 or 4080. In the end, MSI went all out with the new Suprim X, the default extra performance is just 3% though, though if you are seriously into silent operation and beautiful looks, then it's a card that we can definitely recommend over the founder edition at a price premium of just 100 USD.

Manual OC worked better on the RTX 4090 Suprim X than on any other card today, including the liquid-cooled Suprim Liquid X. We were able to break the 3 GHz barrier and memory ran over 1500 MHz too, which yielded an overall overclocked performance of over 500 FPS—the first time we broke that number. The differences between cards are fairly small though, and the silicon lottery also plays a role here.

The three RTX 4090 cards that we've tested cover the whole range of price points and target audiences. The Nvidia RTX 4090 Founders Edition is for those who can't see the need for a particular brand in their system, or perhaps feel that Nvidia's own design is more than good enough. The Gigabyte RTX 4090 Windforce 24G is their baseline model, for those who want a card which does the job without any needless frippery. The MSI RTX 4090 Suprim X, on the other hand, is aimed squarely at those for whom nothing but the best will do. If the RTX 4090 is the flagship Nvidia card, the Suprim X is MSIs flagship take upon the new Ada Lovelace architecture.

Grafikkarte mit extremer Kühlleistung, Performance und Preis! Leider sind die hohen Preise der High End Grafikkarten gekommen, um zu bleiben. So verwundert es nicht, dass für die Spitzenmodelle mittlerweile der Preis eines kleinen Gebrauchtwagens aufgerufen wird. Das relativiert sich jedoch schnell, wenn man bedenkt, das man mit diesen Grafikkarten über Jahre hinweg selbst Toptitel flüssig spielen kann. Betrachten wir uns heute auf OCinside.de mal eines dieser High-End Modelle und prüfen es auf Herz und Nieren. Die Rede ist von der MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming X Trio 24G Grafikkarte.

Where RTX 4090 can flex its capabilities is with ray tracing enabled. While previously enabling RT at 4K always meant some compromises—either upscaling or reduced settings—the RTX 4090 will give you 60 FPS with RT active in nearly all titles. Taking a closer look at our ray tracing benchmarks we can see that the performance hit from enabling ray tracing is lower than before, thanks to the various technological improvements. Compared to AMD, the ray tracing performance is considerably higher, the new Radeon RX 7900 Series doesn't change that.