RTX 4090 vs RTX 3090

RTX 4090 is $500.00 more expensive than RTX 3090, while offering higher throughput.

RTX 409024GB VRAM

ArchitectureAda Lovelace

Cores16,384

TDP450W

Lowest price$1,599.00

RTX 309024GB VRAM

ArchitectureAmpere

Cores10,496

TDP350W

Lowest price$1,099.00

Winners

speedRTX 409016,384 cores

valueRTX 3090Lowest price $1,099.00

efficiencyRTX 3090350W draw

vramRTX 409024GB VRAM

Model	Quantization	RTX 4090	RTX 3090
facebook/sam3	Q4	236.38 tok/s	193.66 tok/s
Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B	Q4	234.27 tok/s	177.50 tok/s
unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	Q4	233.46 tok/s	182.72 tok/s
Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct	Q4	233.12 tok/s	176.30 tok/s
google/embeddinggemma-300m	Q4	232.70 tok/s	193.87 tok/s