RTX 3090 vs RTX 3080

RTX 3090 is $400.00 more expensive than RTX 3080, while offering higher throughput.

RTX 309024GB VRAM

ArchitectureAmpere

Cores10,496

TDP350W

Lowest price$1,099.00

RTX 308010GB VRAM

ArchitectureAmpere

Cores8,704

TDP320W

Lowest price$699.00

Winners

speedRTX 309010,496 cores

valueRTX 3080Lowest price $699.00

efficiencyRTX 3080320W draw

vramRTX 309024GB VRAM

Model	Quantization	RTX 3090	RTX 3080
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR	Q4	205.60 tok/s	157.43 tok/s
apple/OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct	Q4	202.85 tok/s	156.05 tok/s
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	Q4	202.00 tok/s	161.87 tok/s
meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-1B	Q4	201.42 tok/s	156.10 tok/s
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B	Q4	201.42 tok/s	148.72 tok/s