So one of the quirks of 4090 is that it sort of follows the trends of the 30 series when the game runs into a CPU bottleneck which resulted in a lower than expected performance due to CPU overhead. This continues to happen with 40 series but they actually fall behind even Ampere which is kinda weird:
I'll be curious to see if RDNA 3 will have a higher CPU overhead than RDNA 2 as they will also be more than doubling their cores along in a large increase in memory bandwidth. I will say that as impressive as 4090 results are, I think RDNA 3 will still take the Raster crown as well as the crown in power efficiency. But in Ray Tracing and Ai, Nvidia will continue to show its lead.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
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