GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to GeForce RTX 3090 Ti (66/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
GeForce

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

66/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4090

89/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Efficiency 36.0 Poor 43.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 66.0 Average 93.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Fire Strike 51935 72432
Night Raid 156537 195813
Port Royal 14890 26127
Solar Bay 109239 187525
Time Spy 21855 36299
Wild Life Extreme 48861 85218

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
CUDA 8.6 8.9
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 3
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
1080p High 192 255
1080p Ultra 162 217
1440p Ultra 127 177
4K Ultra 76 106
CoD: Modern Warfare III 18617413990 266263219151
Counter-Strike 2 28621315485 33923818890
Cyberpunk 2077 1581409844 22620814366
Far Cry 6 16015113383 203179170104
Forza Horizon 5 20013612699 275199193155
Ghost of Tsushima 1291058957 18815213791
Hogwarts Legacy 1411169352 20016313274
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 254237183101 302284222118
The Witcher 3 21418513071 292268191101

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 40055 75599
Face Detection (HP) 48657 78111
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 10246 15600
Image Segmentation (HP) 22830 36657
Image Super Resolution (Q) 23532 48114
Machine Translation (HP) 4427 6349
Object Detection (SP) 13323 21186
Pose Estimation (Q) 147241 289639
Style Transfer (SP) 298683 601428
Text Classification (SP) 2917 4074

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 362.7 img/sec 318.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 15.9 Gpixels/sec 21 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 227.9 img/sec 222.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.56 Gpixels/sec 2.38 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 12.1 Gpixels/sec 23.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 11.3 Gpixels/sec 14.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 31024.6 FPS 48090.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 1080 Gpixels/sec 1950 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture Ampere Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GA102 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 12900Kor above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released March 29, 2022 September 20, 2022
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Successor — -GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Base Clock 1560 MHz 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 1860 MHz 2520 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 84 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 6MB shared 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 84 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 176
Shading Units 10752 16384
Tensor Cores 336 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 336 512

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Bus 384-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1313 MHz 2625 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6X

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
DirectX 11 238 FPS 323 FPS
DirectX 12 121 FPS 151 FPS
G2D Mark 1226 1303
GPU Compute 16494 Ops/s 26022 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Die Size 628 mm² 609 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 450 W 450 W
Transistor Count 28 billion 76.3 billion
Transistor Density 44.59 MTr/mm² 125.29 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Pixel Fill Rate 208 GPixel/s 444 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 625 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) — Cinebench 2024

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