NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 1549.99
$ 629.99
$ 920.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points
14371 points
2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS
336 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS
Identical
169 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS
245 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS
137 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

A Plague Tale: Requiem FPS

A Plague Tale: Requiem FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

65 FPS
84 FPS
19 FPS slightly higher A Plague Tale: Requiem FPS
Dead Island 2 FPS

Dead Island 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

125 FPS
145 FPS
20 FPS slightly higher Dead Island 2 FPS
Dead Space FPS

Dead Space FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

95 FPS
13 FPS slightly higher Dead Space FPS
82 FPS
Far Cry 6 FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

95 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Far Cry 6 FPS
88 FPS
Fortnite FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

110 FPS
85 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS
25 FPS
Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

101 FPS
132 FPS
31 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS
God of War FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

118 FPS
24 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS
94 FPS
Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

117 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS
111 FPS
Hitman 3 FPS

Hitman 3 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

166 FPS
169 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Hitman 3 FPS
Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

108 FPS
51 FPS significantly higher Horizon Zero Dawn FPS
57 FPS
Shadow of the Tomb Raider FPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

113 FPS
116 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Shadow of the Tomb Raider FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points
329% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
4636 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points
6144.78 points
5% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points
0.82% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
192880 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points
181592 points
0.99% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz
1980 MHz
41% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz
2475 MHz
46% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s
85% significantly higher memory bandwidth
504.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W
220 W
59% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s
198 Gigapixels/s
4% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s
0.29% slightly higher texture rate
554.4 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496
46% significantly more shading units
7168

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328
46% significantly more texture mapping units
224

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112
40% slightly more render output processors
80

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586
21st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2024 January

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 vs GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 in gaming.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is faster than the GeForce RTX 3090.

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