Quote from: Hunter on February 08, 2025, 14:27:45Would have liked a bit of learned speculation on the causes. It's not like we don't know the cards are built to be faster, so what's up? My best guess is the drivers aren't optimized yet, or there's something goofy the test itself is doing wrong that isn't properly using the hardware. There's just not a good normal reason a card with more cudas and more pcie bandwidth etc would be slower.
Just look at the chart to see what's going on. The 4090 is scoring significantly slower than the RTX 6000 Ada as well, which is the same silicon as the 4090 with more cores unlocked and twice the RAM. What we are seeing is a small sample set of stock FE level cards vs a large sample set of highly optimized cards with every tweak possible done to a lot of them. This is why despite Passmark and UserBenchmark touting how much better disseminated benchmarking is vs controlled benchmarking, it's just as useless. The end result is that only people interested in bragging about their systems run benchmarks, so the benchmark results are just as skewed by bias as the YouTube reviews are. At least on YouTube you can see what their methodology is. For all we know every one of the 5090s that those scores came from were purposely crippled in some way to make the card look bad so that articles like this would be written. Sure, it's unlikely, but the possibility that it's true is still very possible with only 13 results in. Until there are a few thousand more data points, talking about the results is kinda moot.