GeForce RTX 3090
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How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
Performance breakdown
FPS Across Resolutions
Average FPS across all PC games
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($1499) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
What Owners Say
Owners love the monstrous VRAM for 4K and creative work. The usual gripe is the high power draw and the massive heat it dumps into your room.
- Gets work done without crashing.
- Keeps cool under heavy loads.
- Handles 8K games playably.
- Future-proofs your VR setup.
- Hot and power hungry
- Still no HDMI 2.1
- Massive size fits few cases
Supported technologies
Full specifications
- CUDA Cores
- 10,496
- RT Cores
- 82
- Tensor Cores
- 328
- TMUs
- 328
- ROPs
- 112
- L2 cache
- 6 MB
- Size
- 24 GB
- Type
- GDDR6X
- Bus width
- 384-bit
- Bandwidth
- 936.2 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 1219 MHz
- Base clock
- 1395 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1695 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 35.58 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 35.58 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 190 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 556 GTexel/s
- TDP
- 350W
- Suggested PSU
- 650W
- Power connectors
- 1x 12-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 4.0 x16
- Length
- 336 mm
- Slot width
- 3-slot
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12_2)
- Shader Model
- 6.5
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.0
- Vulkan
- 1.2
- CUDA
- 8.5
Our verdict on the RTX 3090
A big, hot, power-hungry flagship that was overkill for gaming but made serious sense for creators needing huge VRAM.
Get it if you need huge VRAM for 8K gaming or heavy 3D rendering and don't mind a hot, power-hungry card. Skip it if you're gaming at lower resolutions or want something newer, efficient, and cheaper.
Buy it if…
- You need massive VRAM for 8K video or 3D rendering.
- You want top-tier 4K gaming with every setting maxed out.
- You train large AI models locally without cloud costs.
Its place in the overall top
10,536 votes