NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 1699.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

150 %
211 %
40% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

365 FPS
482 FPS
117 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

182 FPS
242 FPS
60 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

260 FPS
356 FPS
95 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

145 FPS
193 FPS
48 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

21676
35402
63% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6268.34
12168.35
94% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204991
326781
59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

181669
254242
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1560 MHz
2235 MHz
43% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz
2520 MHz
61% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB
Identical
24 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
Identical
384 Bit

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

450 W
Identical
450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

208.3 Gigapixels/s
483.8 Gigapixels/s
132% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

40 TFLOPS
82.58 TFLOPS
106% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10752
16384
52% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

336
512
52% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112
192
71% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

6th of 549
2nd of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2022
October 2022

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4090 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 4090 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 24 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti and the GeForce RTX 4090 have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4090 over the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.

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