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

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

NVIDIA · Ada Lovelace

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

24 GB VRAM450W TDP$1,599 MSRP2022

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Ampere

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

24 GB VRAM350W TDP$1,499 MSRP2020

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 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 4090	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
vram gb	24	24
vram type	GDDR6X	GDDR6X
tdp w	450	350
cuda cores	16384	10496

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 4090	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
3DMark Port Royal	25,820 points	15,190 points
3DMark Speed Way	10,527 points	5,075 points
3DMark Steel Nomad	9,225 points	5,340 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Light	11,287 points	—
3DMark Time Spy	39,397 points	18,824 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme	20,192 points	9,800 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	1,302 pts	1,069 pts
PassMark G3D Mark	38,066 pts	26,671 points
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.