Component comparison

GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 4090
  • + Release year (+2)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+4 GB)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+122 GB/s)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-4 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+48,000M)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+19 mm²)
  • + CUDA cores (+6144)
  • + TMUs (+192)
  • + ROPs (+64)
  • + RT cores (+48)
  • + Tensor cores (+192)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+48.48 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+257.00 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+757.20 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+27.7)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+287)
  • + Normalized score (+8.7)
B GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+922)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 4090
 Component B
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Release year 2023 (+2) 2021
VRAM (GB) 16 GB (+4 GB) 12 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X
Memory clock (MHz) 2250 MHz —
Bandwidth (GB/s) 1034 GB/s (+122 GB/s) 912 GB/s
Memory bus (bit) 384 bit 384 bit
TGP / TDP (W) 120 W —
Lithography (nm) 4 nm (-4 nm) 8 nm
Transistors (M) 76,300M (+48,000M) 28,300M
Die size (mm²) 609 mm² (+19 mm²) 628 mm²
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 16,384 (+6144) 10,240
TMUs 512 (+192) 320
ROPs 176 (+64) 112
RT cores 128 (+48) 80
Tensor cores 512 (+192) 320
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 82.58 TFLOPS (+48.48 TFLOPS) 34.10 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 443.50 GPixel/s (+257.00 GPixel/s) 186.50 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 1290.00 GTexel/s (+757.20 GTexel/s) 532.80 GTexel/s
Energy efficiency 41.9 (+27.7) 14.2
PassMark (overall) 27,047 (+287) 26,760
3DMark Time Spy 21,251 —
3DMark Fire Strike 46,191 47,113 (+922)
Geekbench OpenCL — 209,081
Geekbench Vulkan — —
Normalized score 75.0 (+8.7) 66.3

In both

CUDA DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Delta
A Plague Tale Requiem 87 FPS 64 FPS +35.9% (A)
Alan Wake 2 109 FPS 76 FPS +43.4% (A)
Armored Core 6 109 FPS 115 FPS 5.5% (B)
Assassin's Creed Mirage 195 FPS 109 FPS +78.9% (A)
Assassin´s Creed Valhalla 144 FPS 99 FPS +45.5% (A)
Atlas Fallen 182 FPS 162 FPS +12.3% (A)
Atomic Heart 144 FPS 100 FPS +44% (A)
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora 114 FPS 73 FPS +56.2% (A)
Back 4 Blood 309 FPS 263 FPS +17.5% (A)
Baldur's Gate 3 123 FPS 111 FPS +10.8% (A)
Battlefield 5 170 FPS 170 FPS ≈
Borderlands 3 162 FPS 100 FPS +62% (A)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 2022 147 FPS 109 FPS +34.9% (A)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 2023 155 FPS 117 FPS +32.5% (A)
Company of Heroes 3 235 FPS 175 FPS +34.3% (A)
Counter-Strike 2 300 FPS 300 FPS ≈
Counter-Strike 2 219 FPS 194 FPS +12.9% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 147 FPS 219 FPS 49% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 98 FPS 64 FPS +53.1% (A)
Dead Space Remake 130 FPS 95 FPS +36.8% (A)
Death Stranding 167 FPS 151 FPS +10.6% (A)
Diablo 4 361 FPS 238 FPS +51.7% (A)
Dota 2 199 FPS 234 FPS 17.6% (B)
Dragon's Dogma 2 71 FPS 70 FPS +1.4% (A)
Dying Light 2 145 FPS 69 FPS +110.1% (A)
EA Sports FC 24 179 FPS 194 FPS 8.4% (B)
EA Sports WRC 117 FPS 101 FPS +15.8% (A)
Elex 2 116 FPS 43 FPS +169.8% (A)
F1 2020 344 FPS 255 FPS +34.9% (A)
F1 2021 276 FPS 182 FPS +51.6% (A)
F1 22 199 FPS 172 FPS +15.7% (A)
F1 23 152 FPS 193 FPS 27% (B)
Far Cry 5 173 FPS 208 FPS 20.2% (B)
Far Cry 6 103 FPS 91 FPS +13.2% (A)
Far Cry New Dawn 145 FPS 108 FPS +34.3% (A)
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark 122 FPS 31 FPS +293.5% (A)
Fortnite 300 FPS 300 FPS ≈
Forza Horizon 4 250 FPS 250 FPS ≈
Forza Horizon 5 281 FPS 200 FPS +40.5% (A)
GRID Legends 190 FPS 117 FPS +62.4% (A)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
GTA V 154 FPS 153 FPS +0.7% (A)
Ghostwire Tokyo 234 FPS 126 FPS +85.7% (A)
God of War 167 FPS 110 FPS +51.8% (A)
Guardians of the Galaxy 158 FPS 112 FPS +41.1% (A)
High On Life 211 FPS 154 FPS +37% (A)
Hogwarts Legacy 45 FPS 89 FPS 97.8% (B)
Horizon Zero Dawn 174 FPS 130 FPS +33.8% (A)
Hunt Showdown 262 FPS 168 FPS +56% (A)
Immortals of Aveum 108 FPS 63 FPS +71.4% (A)
Lies of P 208 FPS 158 FPS +31.6% (A)
Lords of the Fallen 87 FPS 64 FPS +35.9% (A)
Mafia Definitive Edition 179 FPS 151 FPS +18.5% (A)
Metro Exodus 156 FPS 172 FPS 10.3% (B)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Rainbow Six Extraction 346 FPS 157 FPS +120.4% (A)
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart 135 FPS 94 FPS +43.6% (A)
Ready or Not 158 FPS 208 FPS 31.6% (B)
Resident Evil 4 Remake 218 FPS 190 FPS +14.7% (A)
Returnal 159 FPS 114 FPS +39.5% (A)
Riders Republic 185 FPS 101 FPS +83.2% (A)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 243 FPS 156 FPS +55.8% (A)
Sons of the Forest 88 FPS 86 FPS +2.3% (A)
Spider-Man Miles Morales 118 FPS 117 FPS +0.9% (A)
Star Wars Jedi Survivor 106 FPS 79 FPS +34.2% (A)
Starfield 84 FPS 58 FPS +44.8% (A)
The Callisto Protocol 116 FPS 95 FPS +22.1% (A)
The Crew Motorfest 60 FPS 60 FPS ≈
The Finals 175 FPS 190 FPS 8.6% (B)
The Last of Us 103 FPS 88 FPS +17% (A)
The Quarry 177 FPS 126 FPS +40.5% (A)
The Witcher 3 394 FPS 372 FPS +5.9% (A)
The Witcher 3 290 FPS 144 FPS +101.4% (A)
The Witcher 3 v4 138 FPS 168 FPS 21.7% (B)
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 168 FPS 124 FPS +35.5% (A)
Total War Pharaoh 220 FPS 157 FPS +40.1% (A)
Valorant 350 FPS 350 FPS ≈
Watch Dogs Legion 131 FPS 107 FPS +22.4% (A)
X-Plane 11.11 78 FPS 33 FPS +136.4% (A)
Yakuza Like a Dragon 167 FPS 160 FPS +4.4% (A)

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 4090 wins 17 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).
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