NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4090

Compare specifications, gaming benchmarks, and prices for these two GPUs.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

  • Release Date: September 24, 2020
  • MSRP: $1,499 USD
  • GPU Architecture: Ampere
  • Hardware-Accelerated GEMM Operations:
    FP16 FP32 BF16 FP8 INT8 INT4 TF32 FP64 INT1
  • CUDA Compute Capability : 8.6

Pricing

  • Lowest Price: $733
  • Average Price: $5,332
  • Active Listings: 97

MSRP: $1,499

NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4090

  • Release Date: October 12, 2022
  • MSRP: $1,599 USD
  • GPU Architecture: ada
  • Hardware-Accelerated GEMM Operations:
    FP16 FP32 BF16 FP8 INT8 INT4 TF32 FP64 INT1
  • CUDA Compute Capability : 8.9

Pricing

  • Lowest Price: $2,451
  • Average Price: $4,186
  • Active Listings: 99

MSRP: $1,599

Specifications Comparison

SpecificationNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4090
FP32 TFLOPs
63rd @ 35.58 TFLOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)
84th @ 82.6 TFLOPs (Top Tier)(Top)
FP16 TFLOPs
72nd @ 142.74 TFLOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)
97th @ 660.6 TFLOPs (Top Tier)(Top)
Tensor Core Count
78th @ 328 Cores (Top Tier)(Top)
91st @ 512 Cores (Top Tier)(Top)
Memory Capacity (GB)
88th @ 24 GB (Top Tier)(Top)
88th @ 24 GB (Top Tier)(Top)
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)
88th @ 936.2 GB/s (Top Tier)(Top)
96th @ 1008 GB/s (Top Tier)(Top)
Int8 TOPs
36th @ 285 TOPs (Entry Tier)(Entry)
93rd @ 1321.2 TOPs (Top Tier)(Top)

Gaming Benchmarks Comparison

BenchmarkNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4090
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (4K)
65th @ 231 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)
97th @ 442 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (1440p)
74th @ 411 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)
96th @ 765 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (1080p)
79th @ 612 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
100th @ 966 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
Counter-Strike 2 (4K)
42nd @ 142 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)
96th @ 303 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
Counter-Strike 2 (1440p)
55th @ 255 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)
95th @ 383 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
Counter-Strike 2 (1080p)
54th @ 346 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)
92nd @ 409 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
Quake II RTX (4K)
74th @ 70 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)
96th @ 117 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
Quake II RTX (1440p)Data not availableData not available
Quake II RTX (1080p)Data not availableData not available