NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 1215.74 significantly less expensive

$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

42789 points

205% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

1019 FPS

687 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

503 FPS

334 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

740 FPS

499 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

425 FPS

291 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

37% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

14480 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

14992.38 points

157% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

383325 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

380401 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

2017 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2407 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

32 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

512 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

64% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

423.6 Gigapixels/s

123% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

21760

107% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

680

107% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

176

57% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs GeForce RTX 5090 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 5090 has slightly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 24 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3090 has a significantly lower TDP at 350 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 is better than the GeForce RTX 3090.