Nvidia RTX 4090 vs Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti: Which is Better?

Nvidia RTX 4090 vs Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti: Should you upgrade? The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 has taken over as the new flagship king. This is a top-end graphics card with insane performance. However, how much of an upgrade is it when compared to its predecessors- RTX 3090/3090 Ti?

In this article on the Nvidia RTX 4090 vs Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti we’re going to compare the prices, architecture, performances, and everything there’s to know about these two desktop graphics cards.

Nvidia RTX 4090 vs Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti: Specs Comparison

Specs	Nvidia RTX 4090	Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti
GPU	GA102	GA102
Process	TSMC 4N	Samsung 8nm
CUDA Cores	16384	10752
SMs	128	84
Tensor Cores	328	336
RT Cores	128	84
Memory Bus	384-bit	384-bit
Memory Capacity	24GB GDDR6X	24GB GDDR6X
Memory Speed	21Gbps	21Gbps
Memory Bandwidth	1 TB/s	1008 GB/s
TGP	450W	450W

Nvidia RTX 4090 vs Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti

Price

At launch, the Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti was priced at $1,999 and even the custom editions from MSI, EVGA, Asus, etc were selling for about $2,300. However, the price has now dropped significantly. You can get the RTX 3090 Ti for as low as $1,399 right now.

As for the latest flagship- Nvidia RTX 4090, it is priced at $1,599 (MSRP). However, the custom editions by MSI, Gigabyte, Asus, etc will be more expensive than the MSRP of $1,599. Overall, the latest RTX 4090 is more expensive than the RTX 3090 Ti.

Release Date and Availability

The Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti was announced by the company in late March 2022, and it became available for purchase in April 2022. While the RTX 4090 was announced on September 20, 2022, and the sale commences on October 12th, 2022. You can use the box at the bottom of this post to purchase either of them.

Performance

The Nvidia RTX 4090 is faster and better than the Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti. Starting with their manufacturing process, the RTX 4090 has a better foundry on TSMC 4N with 76 billion transistors. That’s about 162% higher than what the RTX 3090 Ti possesses.

Additionally, the RTX 3090 Ti features 10,752 CUDA cores whilst the RTX 4090 has 16,384 CUDA cores. The “Compute Unified Device Architecture” also known as CUDA, are cores responsible for all the processing aimed at the graphics card. In this respect, the new RTX 4090 is about 52.3% better than the RTX 3090 Ti.

The game test carried out by Nvidia shows how faster and better the RTX 4090 is than RTX 3090 Ti. The first game tested was “Cyberpunk 2077” and it resulted in the RTX 4090 being 4x better than the RTX 3090 Ti. While in games such as “Microsoft Flight Simulator” and “Darktide”, the new RTX 4090 was 2x better than the RTX 3090 Ti.

Nvidia RTX 4090 is a special graphics card. But what’s the secret? The new architecture it uses introduced 3rd Gen RT core and 4th Gen Tensor Core. This means Ray Tracing is better and NVIDIA confirms Ada Lovelace supports DLSS 3 upscaling technology in the Nvidia RTX 4090 compared to the Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti.

Overall, both graphics cards can perform in 4k and 8k HDR but the new RTX 4090 is better. And for those who need to hear this, the Nvidia RTX 4090 and RTX 3090 Ti won’t be used in gaming only, because that will be overkill.

Nvidia RTX 4090 vs Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti: Verdict

The Nvidia RTX 4090 is better and faster than the Nvidia RTX 3090 series. So, it is worth the upgrade if you have the money. You’ll notice the performance improvements when you are gaming, rendering, or carrying out heavy-duty workloads like 3D modeling, machine learning, and video encoding, the extra cores help with a performance boost.

Buy Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Buy on Amazon	$1,399.94
Buy on Amazon(UK)	£1,379.99

Nvidia RTX 4090	Price
Buy on Amazon	$2,149.95