Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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We're investigating PCI-Express performance scaling with GeForce RTX 4090, this time paired with the mighty Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K, in 25 titles, including ray tracing and minimum FPS.

The GeForce RTX 4090 "Ada" remains the undisputed gaming champion this generation, and is the best graphics card that money can buy right now. When we tested its scaling with various PCIe speeds back in October 2022, we were still rocking our older graphics card test system, which was powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X "Zen 3" processor. While it was the fastest gaming processor at its time launch, it has since lost leadership to the 12th- and 13th Generation Intel Core processors, not to mention the company's own Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" processors.

Full article: techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-pci-express-performance-scaling-with-core-i9-13900k

Intro: 0:00
System Specs: 0:17
1080p Results: 0:35
1440p Results: 1:41
4K Results: 2:27
Raytracing Results: 3:11
Game Choice Matters: 3:43
Outro: 4:41