NVIDIA · Ampere
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
24 GB VRAM350W TDP$1,499 MSRP2020
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090. Release years: 2020, 2025. MSRP range: $1,499 · $1,999. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
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NVIDIA · Blackwell
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
32 GB VRAM575W TDP$1,999 MSRP2025
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*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 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 24 | 32 |
| vram type | GDDR6X | GDDR7 |
| tdp w | 350 | 575 |
| cuda cores | 10496 | 21760 |
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 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Port Royal | 15,190 points | 45,808 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 5,075 points | 16,532 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 5,340 points | 11,906 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad (4K) | — | 14,133 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 18,824 points | 46,229 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 9,800 points | — |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 1,069 pts | 1,412 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 26,671 points | 38,935 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
- llama3.2:1b: 267.0 tok/s
- qwen3:35b-a3b: 135.7 tok/s
- qwen3.6-35b-a3b: 120.0 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
- Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct: 5841.0 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B FP8: 420.0 tok/s
- Llama 2 7B: 263.6 tok/s
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