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Buy a 4090 now and upgrade to a 5090 or wait for the 5090?
There have been a few threads about this earlier in the year, so I have collected some of the useful information.
Some other people have estimated the selling point for a used 4090 would be around $1500 USD. At current USD retail, the 4090 sells for $1819. This would be a loss of $319 USD. However, on current resale sites such as Ebay, a used 4090 is being as sold at $1740. That's a much smaller loss of $79.
Some leaks have suggested that the 5090 could see a Q4 release this year (likely December) with a selling point of 2000-2500 USD.
Assuming the selling point could drop for a used 4090 at any time, would you either;
A) spend $79-319 USD to have a 4090 for a year, and upgrade to a 5090 when it releases. Or;
B) just wait for the 5090.
Obviously everyone has a different system so the answers may vary. But let's try to keep our answers from the perspective of buying a PC for the first time.
On 100%, resolution scaling maxed, etc every single box maxed no dlss etc
It runs choppy for me. 4090 with 13900k
I think it's CPU bottleneck due to badly optimised game from what I've read up. I had mine on 4k and no issues really, occasionally dipped - I will test it out when I get a chance.
Let me know, it’s the only title the 4090 wasn’t able to be playable at everything to the max. If I relaxed the resolution upscaling it was fine but that defeated the purpose of the 4090 for me.
Currently waiting for the 5090 to play HL at max graphics
There's something wrong with that game. If you turn down settings a notch, so high and not ultra, it runs smoother. I'm running my 4090 with textures on ultra but everything else on high. Even ray tracing works noticeably better on high. Running all settings maxxed out is a guaranteed shitshow.