Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming Overclocked Triple Fan 24GB GDDR6X PCIe 4 0 Graphics Card

Another reason to opt for a more potent PSU than your system’s exact power requirement is due to GPU transient power spikes, which occur when the GPU is under heavy load. These spikes may cause the PC to shut down if the PSU lacks sufficient overhead. For overclocking or future-proofing, you might even want to consider an even more powerful power supply, as the trend in current GPU power requirements seems to be increasing year by year. Yes, the GeForce RTX 4090 provides good value for money within its price range, of around $1739, when bought new.

The latest export restrictions on AI hardware define the limit as anything with a Total Processing Power (TPP) of 4,800 or higher. There’s a secondary factor of Processing Density (PD—TPP divided by die size in square-mm) that seeks to limit data center parts so that supercomputers can’t use lots of lower performance parts to make up the difference. Various GPUs, including the Nvidia H100, H800, A100, A800, L40, L4, and RTX 4090, can no longer be exported to China without a license—with a presumption of denial for license exceptions. Like many gamers, I’m drawn to the allure of LED lighting like a certain species of winged creepy crawly is to the burny stuff. The Philips Huge Gradient LED Lightstrip really illuminates my office when I’m gaming late into the night, and thanks to the handy Philips Hue app, it’s easy to choose between dozens of pre-made color profiles. Reserving clearance around the graphics card equivalent to an unused expansion slot will typically improve airflow.

This is a laughably inexpensive price for an RTX 4090 equipped gaming laptop. The config we’ve built out has an Intel Core i HX processor which, unfortunately, can’t be upgraded to a Core i9 CPU, however you can upgrade the 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD if you want to. Having bought up these RTX 4090 models, what some firms are doing in China is taking them apart and using the AD102 chips and VRAM modules to make new AI accelerators with blower-style coolers. Those coolers are designed for data center usage in what are known as AI farms, where there are big racks of these GPUs for serious AI workloads. 4K textures take up a significant amount of RAM, and once that capacity is all used up on your RTX 4090, your system will then start storing those files onto your rig’s dedicated gaming RAM instead.

Ray tracing, a game-changing rendering technique, is taken to new heights with the RTX 4090’s dedicated RT cores. These cores enable real-time ray tracing, delivering cinematic visuals and realistic lighting effects previously unseen in gaming. Whether exploring virtual worlds or creating digital masterpieces, the RTX 4090 ensures an immersive and visually stunning experience.

WhisperMode uses AI-powered algorithms to manage the fan speeds in conjunction with the CPU, GPU, and system temperatures to deliver great acoustics and the best possible performance. Battery Boost finds the optimal balance of GPU and CPU power usage, battery discharge, image quality, and frame rates for longer battery life. NVIDIA Max-Q is a suite of AI-powered technologies which optimize every aspect of a laptop—the GPU, CPU, memory, thermals, software, display, and more—to deliver powerful devices that are thin and quiet with great battery life. EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 RTX 40 Series and DLSS 3 transforms laptops through process, design, and technologies.