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

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Release years: 2020, 2022. MSRP range: $1,499 · $1,599. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

NVIDIA · Ampere

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

24 GB VRAM350W TDP$1,499 MSRP2020

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Ada Lovelace

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

24 GB VRAM450W TDP$1,599 MSRP2022

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 benchmarks →

*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	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
vram gb	24	24
vram type	GDDR6X	GDDR6X
tdp w	350	450
cuda cores	10496	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	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
3DMark Port Royal	15,039 points	24,886 points
3DMark Speed Way	5,075 points	11,625 points
3DMark Steel Nomad	5,340 points	46,384 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Light	—	11,287 points
3DMark Time Spy	18,824 points	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	1,069 pts	1,302 pts
PassMark G3D Mark	26,546 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.