GeForce RTX 3090 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 (62/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce RTX 3090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 3090

62/100
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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 GeForce RTX 4090
Efficiency 35.0 Poor 43.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 61.0 Average 93.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 4090
Fire Strike 47512 72432
Night Raid 139766 195813
Port Royal 13633 26127
Solar Bay 97395 187525
Time Spy 19896 36299
Wild Life Extreme 43669 85218

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 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 GeForce RTX 4090
1080p High 181 255
1080p Ultra 152 217
1440p Ultra 120 177
4K Ultra 70 106
CoD: Modern Warfare III 17115912380 266263219151
Counter-Strike 2 27520715583 33923818890
Cyberpunk 2077 1481329043 22620814366
Far Cry 6 15614512477 203179170104
Forza Horizon 5 18612811791 275199193155
Ghost of Tsushima 120978548 18815213791
Hogwarts Legacy 1281088647 20016313274
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 23722616891 302284222118
The Witcher 3 20517012866 292268191101

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 4090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 37984 75599
Face Detection (HP) 55232 78111
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 10665 15600
Image Segmentation (HP) 28963 36657
Image Super Resolution (Q) 22697 48114
Machine Translation (HP) 5088 6349
Object Detection (SP) 13891 21186
Pose Estimation (Q) 128155 289639
Style Transfer (SP) 272000 601428
Text Classification (SP) 3152 4074

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 4090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 320.8 img/sec 318.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 14.4 Gpixels/sec 21 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 207.2 img/sec 222.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.48 Gpixels/sec 2.38 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 11.5 Gpixels/sec 23.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 10.1 Gpixels/sec 14.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 27764.9 FPS 48090.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 984.2 Gpixels/sec 1950 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 4090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 6900 XT —
Architecture Ampere Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GA102 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $1499 $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 12900Kor above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released September 24, 2020 September 20, 2022
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090 -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 4090
Base Clock 1395 MHz 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 1695 MHz 2520 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 82 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 6MB shared 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 82 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 176
Shading Units 10496 16384
Tensor Cores 328 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 328 512

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 4090
Bus 384-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 19500 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1219 MHz 2625 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6X

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 4090
DirectX 11 218 FPS 323 FPS
DirectX 12 109 FPS 151 FPS
G2D Mark 1069 1303
GPU Compute 15028 Ops/s 26022 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 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 350 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 GeForce RTX 4090
Pixel Fill Rate 190 GPixel/s 444 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 556 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

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

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