NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. All released in 2022. MSRP range: $1,999 · $1,599. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Where to buy
Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 24 | 24 |
| vram type | GDDR6X | GDDR6X |
| tdp w | 450 | 450 |
| cuda cores | 10752 | 16384 |
Synthetic benchmarks
Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.
| Benchmark | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Port Royal | 15,925 points | 24,886 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 5,927 points | 11,625 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 5,755 points | 46,384 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad Light | — | 11,287 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | — | 36,560 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | — | 20,192 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme (Graphics) | — | 19,000 pts |
| 3DMark Time Spy GPU | — | 35,200 pts |
| Deep Learning Benchmark (ResNet-50) | — | 128,000 images/sec |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 1,226 pts | 1,302 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 29,284 points | 38,066 pts |
| Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy | — | 2 rank |
AI inference (tokens/sec)
Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
- llama2:7b: 172.3 tok/s
- llama2:7b: 171.2 tok/s
- qwen3:30b-a3b: 121.9 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
- llama3.1:8b: 2550.0 tok/s
- qwen3:32b: 650.0 tok/s
- llama3:8b: 440.0 tok/s
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