GeForce RTX 4090
Nvidia graphics card · GeForce RTX 40 series · launched October 2022
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Launch price in today's dollars
The GeForce RTX 4090 launched at $1,599 in 2022. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $1,808 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 13% rise over 4 years. At its launch price that is 693 Blender points per $100.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2022 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Blender rendering score
Median score 11,078 (middle half of runs 10,683–11,415) across 4,051 community runs on Blender 4.x with the OPTIX backend. That is #4 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #1 of 10 in the GeForce RTX 40 series.
This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.
Specifications
| Vendor | Nvidia |
|---|---|
| Series | GeForce RTX 40 series |
| Launched | October 2022 |
| Launch price | $1,599 |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace |
| Chip | AD102-300-A1 |
| Memory | 24 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6X |
| Memory bus | 384-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,008 GB/s |
| Core clock | 2,235 MHz (boost 2,520 MHz) |
| FP32 compute | 82.58 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 450 W (TDP) |
| Transistors | 76.3 billion |
| Die size | 608.5 mm² |
| Bus interface | PCIe 4 x16 |
| Tier | 90-class |
The Nvidia 90-class over time
Nvidia graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.
| Part | Year | Launch price | In 2026 $ | Blender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce GTX 295 | 2009 | $499 | $769 | — |
| GeForce GTX 295 Single PCB | 2009 | $499 | $769 | — |
| GeForce GTX 590 | 2011 | $699 | $1,028 | — |
| GeForce GTX 690 | 2012 | $999 | $1,440 | — |
| GeForce RTX 3090 | 2020 | $1,499 | $1,916 | 5,398 |
| GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | 2022 | $1,999 | $2,261 | 5,633 |
| GeForce RTX 4090 | 2022 | $1,599 | $1,808 | 11,078 |
| GeForce RTX 5090 | 2025 | $1,999 | $2,054 | 14,998 |
Compare with
- GeForce RTX 3090 Ti · 2022 · $1,999 · 5,633
- GeForce RTX 4080 · 2022 · $1,199 · 8,408
- GeForce RTX 4090 D · 2023 · 10,629
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