Nvidia RTX 3090 in Graphics Card Comparison

Nvidia RTX 3090 Founders Edition

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition has climbed to the top of our GPU benchmarks rankings, but where it ranks among some of the world’s best graphics cards is a more difficult question to answer. While the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 retained the RTX 20-series’ previous pricing system, retaining the RTX 2080 Super at $699, the RTX 3090 keeps the RTX 2080 Ti’s $1200 launch price and increases this by $300. However, there is an additional viewpoint to consider the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 can be used to replace the $2,500 Titan RTX, in which case it is a faster card that costs $1,000 less. In any way, if you want to buy Nvidia’s new halo card, you’ll need some significant bucks.

 

Nvidia Founders Edition Graphics Card

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090’s brief review is basically how much you’d expect. Depending on specs alone, this is around 20% faster than the Nvidia RTX 3080, with more than twice the memory. The extra VRAM doesn’t make a significant difference across most games but if you’re running at 8K (maybe 5K), it can be beneficial for some professional workloads. To get the most out of the Nvidia RTX 3090, you’ll need a capable CPU. This is a GPU intended for 4K ultra gaming, and it’s 12% faster than the RTX 3080 at those settings. With 1440p ultra, the RTX 3090 is only 8% faster than the RTX 3080. If you are using 1080p? Seriously, don’t worry.

You can see our review and benchmark of the Nvidia RTX 3090 here.

You can buy Nvidia RTX 3090 from here.

Nvidia GPU Specifications

Graphics Card RTX 3090 FE RTX 3080 FE Titan RTX RTX 2080 Ti FE
Architecture GA102 GA102 TU102 TU102
Process Technology Samsung 8N Samsung 8N TSMC 12FFN TSMC 12FFN
Transistors (Billion) 28.3 28.3 18.6 18.6
Die size (mm^2) 628.4 628.4 754 754
SMs 82 68 72 68
GPU Cores (FP32) 10496 8704 4608 4352
GPU Cores (INT32) 5248 4352 4608 4352
Tensor Cores 328 272 576 544
RT Cores 82 68 72 68
Base Clock (MHz) 1395 1440 1350 1515
Boost Clock (MHz) 1695 1710 1770 1635
VRAM Speed (Gbps) 19.5 19 14 14
VRAM (GB) 24 10 24 11
VRAM Bus Width 384 320 384 352
ROPs 112 96 96 88
TMUs 328 272 288 272
TFLOPS FP32 35.6 29.8 16.3 14.2
TOPS INT32 17.8 14.9 16.3 14.2
Tensor TFLOPS FP16 (Sparsity) 142 (285) 119 (238) 130 114
RT TFLOPS 69.5 58.1 49.2 45.7
Bandwidth (GBps) 936 760 672 616
TDP (watts) 350 320 285 260
Launch Date September 2020 September 2020 December 2018 September 2018
Launch Price $1,499 $699 $2,499 $1,199

 

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