Comparing NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs. 3090
Below you can compare the latest GPU-s across multiple benchmarks. Explore detailed graphs, performance scores, and rankings to quickly find the model that best suits your workflow and creative needs.
Verdict
The RTX 4090 is 99% faster than the RTX 3090
Averaged over 4 rendering benchmarks, the RTX 4090 leads in 4 of them. The biggest gap is in OctaneBench 2025, where the RTX 4090 scores 108% higher.
Price and value
Buy a card or render on the farm
Your RTX 4090 or 100+ GPUs at once?
Drop & Render
Estimated with our live price calculator for 250 frames. Local times scale with OctaneBench 2025 scores; farm times assume enough free nodes. From €95.25 on Sapphire.
Ranking by benchmarks
OctaneBench 2025
Cinebench 2024
V-Ray benchmark
Blender benchmark
Specifications
| Model | GeForce RTX 4090 | GeForce RTX 3090 |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | nVidia | nVidia |
| Year | October 2022 | September 2020 |
| Code Name | AD102 | GA102-300-A1 |
| Memory | 24576 MB | 24576 MB |
| Core Speed | 2235 MHz | 1395 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 1325 GB/s | 1219 GB/s |
| Power (Max TDP) | 450 watts | 350 watts |
| Bandwidth | 1042432 MB/sec | 958668 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 1144320 Mtexels/sec | 457560 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 393360 Mpixels/sec | 156240 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 16384 | 10496 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 512 | 328 |
| Render Output Units | 176 | 112 |
| Bus Type | GDDR6X | GDDR6X |
| Bus Width | 384-bit | 384-bit |
| Fab Process | 4 nm | 8 nm |
| Transistors | 76300 million | 28300 million |
| Bus | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 12 | DirectX 12 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.6 | OpenGL 4.6 |
Methodology
Our data above is compiled from multiple sources:
-
Our own benchmarks: We conduct extensive testing with the GPU and CPU models we use on the farm. Over the past 10 years we have tested over 1,000 GPUs and 500 CPUs.
-
Model scores: Once we have two or more benchmarks for a device we can perform some machine learning computations to estimate a realistic score in any of the other benchmarks we list. These are always marked with an asterisk (*), and while usually accurate shouldn't be taken as the complete truth.
-
Public benchmark data: We may supplement our dataset with scores from public OctaneBench, V-Ray Benchmark and Blender Benchmark websites. We cannot test every device available ourselves, so this gives us a nice alternative to get You the results you are looking for.
We'll start you off with €25 credits!
Supported software
Company details
Confirm