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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti on all 5 shared benchmarks on file, by 6% to 97%, including 97% in 3DMark Time Spy (37,979 vs 19,241). On qwen3:32b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 generates 650.0 tokens/s (per Spheron Blog) against 35.1 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti (per Hardware Corner), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Both released in 2022. MSRP range: $1,999 · $1,599. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

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*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 TiNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
vram gb 2424
vram type GDDR6XGDDR6X
tdp w 450450
cuda cores 1075216384

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from GPU-Monkey, HWBOT, 3DMark, Overclock3D, HWCooling.net, The FPS Review, [H]ard|Forum RTX 4090 Time Spy Thread, Notebookcheck and TechPowerUp; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 TiNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (Graphics score) (higher is better)
Source: GPU-Monkey		 27,143 points—
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: HWBOT, 3DMark, Overclock3D, HWCooling.net, GPU-Monkey		 15,092 points25,820 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 5,927 points10,527 points
3DMark Speed Way (Graphics score) (higher is better)
Source: GPU-Monkey		 5,899 points—
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark, The FPS Review		 5,755 points27,805 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Light (higher is better)
Source: The FPS Review		 —11,287 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: [H]ard|Forum RTX 4090 Time Spy Thread, 3DMark, Notebookcheck		 19,241 points37,979 points
3DMark Time Spy (Graphics score) (higher is better)
Source: GPU-Monkey		 21,479 points—
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better)
Source: TechPowerUp, The FPS Review		 —29,321 pts
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (Graphics score) (higher is better)
Source: GPU-Monkey		 11,067 points—
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (Graphics) (higher is better)
Source: TechPowerUp		 —19,000 pts
3DMark Time Spy GPU (higher is better)
Source: TechPowerUp		 —35,200 pts

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti on all 5 shared benchmarks on file, by 6% to 97%, including 97% in 3DMark Time Spy (37,979 vs 19,241).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen3:32b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 generates 650.0 tokens/s (per Spheron Blog) against 35.1 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti (per Hardware Corner), best community run on file for each.

What did the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 cost at launch?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti launched at a $1,999 MSRP and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 at $1,599. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.

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