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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14028 points

16967 points

20% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

332 FPS

394 FPS

62 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

240 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

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

7942.06 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

215096 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) 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

24th of 597

14th of 597

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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

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.

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 3090 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 95 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 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 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 3090.