Any 4090 owners out there (quick question about ray tracing)?

[youmeathead]

As a proud owner of a 3090 Ti, I was a little upset to realize that if I enable the RT option in the ER graphics menu and set it to maximum, I'm struggling to achieve 60 fps even at 1080p. No big whoop actually. I've read on this forum as well as other forums around the internet that ray tracing is a technology being developed.

My question is how are 4090 owners faring with this technology while playing this game? Can playing ER achieve 60 frames at 4K resolution with all max settings and maximum ray tracing?

The reason why I'm asking this is because I'm deciding if I should get a 4090 or wait until the 4090 Ti/Super comes along or just wait until the 5000 cards come out which I've heard will come out sooner like early to mid 2024. Thanks for the feedback.

[lpg40]

4090 owner here. It is a monster and can do that no issue. But I would not recommend getting it just for ER, the RT option is basically pointless, you are better playing the game in regular max settings without your computer turning into a space heater for basically no change. Shadows still look like taken from Minecraft.
If you are fine with the performance of your 3090 TI for the rest of the games just wait for the 5090.

[Fineous🔥]

Here. Works perfect like it did with my previous GPU (before ray-tracing) and i noticed some minor quality of life improvement specially in characters......face also fog (maybe im crazy and fog was looking awesome before).

But like the legend above me said i dont recomend it just for Elden Ring. Lets face it i like and liked the looks of the game but between the FPS cap and other things we are not talking about a eye-candy game, plus you will not notice any difference between your current graphic quality compared with 4090.
It will run just fine and thats it.

[Shinkiro]

Originally posted by youmeathead:

The reason why I'm asking this is because I'm deciding if I should get a 4090 or wait until the 4090 Ti/Super comes along or just wait until the 5000 cards come out which I've heard will come out sooner like early to mid 2024. Thanks for the feedback.

if you're fine with your current performance then dont upgrade, its a waste of money, it's certainly not worth it just for RT on ER.

As a 3090 owner ill be waiting for the 5000 series, the jump to 4000 isnt worth it imo.

[Necropants]

RT is pretty pointless for most cards without DLSS it's a bit wierd they would implement this without DLSS as well for the majority of people. (I havent logged in yet to check)

[alumlovescake]

"pround owner" lol. Do not own a 4090 but can 100% say this game is just broken and bugged the fps even at low settings no rt is not what it should be even taking the 60 cap into account

[CazadorDeLobo]

Yes, buy the 4090. Consume. Make sure you spend at least 2 grand. /s

People have been attempting to fix the NVIDIA marketing brainwashing for years now. This question stands as a testament to the existence thereof. It is too much of a burden to inform OP of this level of purchase decision, as they've already dumped several grand on a piece of tech that they're now considering another several grand to upgrade.

This is abnormal PC building/upgrading behavior. Unless you have a professional purpose for these cards, you should be looking into why you are underwhelmed by the graphics or performance. You should not continue to throw thousands of dollars at it while only asking others who are doing so blindly.

If anybody actually looked up ray-tracing, they'd see why real-time ray-tracing is not all it's been hyped up to be. They'd understand that games have used ray-tracing to bake lighting in for decades. They'd understand why RTX in ER makes little difference, as Fromsoftware had already employed a technique to incorporate ray-traced lighting and shadows, in a way which is not performance-prohibitive or effectively price-gated.

I'm sorry that this isn't a yes/no answer, but there's too little to go off of for me to feel comfortable advising a substantial purchase like this, considering the apparent lack of information OP is equipped with.

[wickfut]

Currently this game is a mess with Ray Tracing. Setting it to 4k maximum quality and maximum ray tracing and it's smooth through 90% of the world. Go into areas with lots of trees or fire and this can drop to 40fps.
The issue is that the GPU usage shows 100% with the frame rate dipping to 40fps, the actual GPU power consumption is very low at around 250w so a 4090 isn't actually running at maximum, it's running just over half load. My CPU load never gets higher than 8-12% either. There's some weird bottleneck occurring somewhere, hopefully it'll be patched.

[Elixx]

I had a 3080ti before i got my 4090, the Ray Tracing performance is huge compared to the cards but mostly in games that use DLSS and Frame Generation. Still the difference is pretty noticably even without DLSS/FG.

[Fineous🔥]

Oh yes and whatever you do.....please dont think only about Elden Ring oh my Elden Ring.
We are going to get some Unreal 5 powered promising games this year like Lords of the Fallen "redemption".

You should be more than fine with the 3090 TI so save yourself some good 1700€ unless you want to "dominate" properly optimized and be able to play phatetically optimized ones even with max settings.....

[nfinite.recursion]

Also, don't be that guy that buys a 4090 and puts it in a PC with a 4790K, 16GB DDR3, and a 1080p 60Hz display.

[Sgt. Flaw]

♥♥♥♥ em....Don't pay 2g on that....If a 3090 Ti can't hold 60 max at even 1440p the technology is broken.

Also, Higher res is way better than 1080p

[The Icecream Snowman]

I have a 3060 and I get 60 fps easily with a couple of barely noticeable effects turned off. I don't need to spend a month's wages to get this month's shiniest card.

Would you enjoy the ray tracing more than something else that money could buy? You could get, like, six keyboards for that money. Eventually. When the parts are back in stock.

[Gahdoh]

I have a 4090. I think RT makes the game look worse and have turned it off. It runs just fine at 4K though. The shadow on the trees with RT just looks terrible though, so it's really not worth it. Just imo

[xabre2th]

the more GPU you buy...

[Abysswalker]

Funny how many people come here just to complain about the best GPU on the planet. I have a 4090 + 13900K and it runs RT in ER without issues even at 4K. I do believe that the RT in Elden Ring isnt the best though. Lots of shadows look pixelated. The real reason to go for RT are the dungeons. Because of the RTAO the atmosphere is quite a lot better. At the end of the day its up to you if you wanna use RT in Elden Ring or not but the 4090 is worth every penny, I can tell you this much. Not just for Elden Ring.