NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14028 points

14473 points

3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

332 FPS

355 FPS

23 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

182 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

240 FPS

253 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

145 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

7059.26 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

181715 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

172409 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

1335 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

Identical

1695 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

62% significantly higher memory bandwidth

576 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

120 W

191% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

Identical

189.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

7% slightly higher texture rate

515.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

7% slightly more shading units

9728

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

7% slightly more texture mapping units

304

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

Identical

112

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 597

20th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop benchmarks

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

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3090 has a slightly 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 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 3090.