NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090. Release years: 2020, 2025. MSRP range: $1,999 · $1,499. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

NVIDIA · Blackwell

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

32 GB VRAM575W TDP$1,999 MSRP2025

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
vram gb	32	24
vram type	GDDR7	GDDR6X
tdp w	575	350
cuda cores	21760	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 5090	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
3DMark Port Royal	45,808 points	15,190 points
3DMark Speed Way	16,532 points	5,075 points
3DMark Steel Nomad	11,906 points	5,340 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (4K)	14,133 points	—
3DMark Time Spy	46,229 points	18,824 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme	—	9,800 points
PassMark G2D Mark	1,412 pts	1,069 pts
PassMark G3D Mark	38,935 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.