NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points
16967 points
21% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS
394 FPS
61 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS
213 FPS
44 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS
288 FPS
48 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS
163 FPS
29 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points
7942.06 points
36% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points
215096 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points
191283 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz
41% slightly higher core clock speed
990 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz
11% slightly higher boost clock speed
1515 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
4% slightly higher memory bandwidth
896 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W
95 W
268% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s
11% slightly higher pixel rate
169.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s
11% slightly higher texture rate
496.9 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496
Identical
10496

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328
Identical
328

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112
Identical
112

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586
14th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR7

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 5090 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3090 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3090.

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