NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3090 Ti sales 27 January 2022 at a recommended price of $1,999 . This is a high-end Ampere architecture desktop card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 24 GB of GDDR6X memory clocked at 21 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1,008 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is triple-slot card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 336 mm. 1x 16-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 450 Watt.

It provides outstanding gaming and benchmark performance at 76.84% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 3090 Ti: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking8
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money14.12
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameAmpere GA102
Market segmentDesktop
Release date27 January 2022 (2 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,999
Current price$1251 (0.6x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 3090 Ti's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10752of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed1560 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed1860 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors28,300 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology8 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)450 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate625.0of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 3090 Ti and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Length336 mm
Width3-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3090 Ti: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount24 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width384 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed21000 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth1,008 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+

API support

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.6
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

RTX 3090 Ti 29784

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

RTX 3090 Ti 69481

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RTX 3090 Ti 53110

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RTX 3090 Ti 246319

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

RTX 3090 Ti 564087

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD210
1440p140
4K101

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 219

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 110−120
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 160
Battlefield 5 160−170
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 170−180
Cyberpunk 2077 201
Far Cry 5 160−170
Far Cry New Dawn 130−140
Forza Horizon 4 210−220
Hitman 3 210−220
Horizon Zero Dawn 160−170
Red Dead Redemption 2 130−140
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 265
Watch Dogs: Legion 171

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 110−120
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 138
Battlefield 5 160−170
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 170−180
Cyberpunk 2077 173
Far Cry 5 160−170
Far Cry New Dawn 130−140
Forza Horizon 4 210−220
Hitman 3 210−220
Horizon Zero Dawn 160−170
Metro Exodus 178
Red Dead Redemption 2 130−140
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 251
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 394
Watch Dogs: Legion 154

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 110−120
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 123
Battlefield 5 160−170
Cyberpunk 2077 152
Far Cry 5 160−170
Far Cry New Dawn 130−140
Forza Horizon 4 210−220
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 193
Watch Dogs: Legion 130

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 140−150
Hitman 3 170−180
Horizon Zero Dawn 130−140
Metro Exodus 125
Red Dead Redemption 2 75−80
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 184

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 85−90
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 108
Battlefield 5 140−150
Cyberpunk 2077 104
Far Cry 5 140−150
Far Cry New Dawn 120−130
Forza Horizon 4 180−190
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 140−150
Watch Dogs: Legion 108

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 85−90
Hitman 3 100−110
Horizon Zero Dawn 80−85
Metro Exodus 84
Red Dead Redemption 2 50−55
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 106
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 173

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 60−65
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 73
Battlefield 5 100−110
Cyberpunk 2077 53
Far Cry 5 90−95
Far Cry New Dawn 90−95
Forza Horizon 4 130−140
Watch Dogs: Legion 70

Relative perfomance

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is Radeon RX 7900 XT, which is slower by 3% and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with GeForce RTX 3090 Ti according to our statistics.

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