Averages 143 FPS at 1440p over our 9-game suite, anchored estimate · smooth 100+ FPS 1440p gaming across demanding AAA titles
143 Avg FPS Includes estimates
We have not put this card on our bench yet. The numbers below are interpolated from the cards we did measure, on the same suite and the same settings. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti averages 143 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 248 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 87 FPS, a 2.9x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means smooth 100+ FPS 1440p gaming across demanding AAA titles. Under load we logged a peak of 432W against the 450W rating.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 109 FPS | 87 | 6.75 GB | 428 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 120 FPS | 93 | 6.57 GB | 418 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 87 FPS | 72 | 9.49 GB | 414 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 168 FPS | 138 | 7 GB | 432 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 178 FPS | 114 | 5.29 GB | 428 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 248 FPS | 136 | 7.13 GB | 335 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 146 FPS | 111 | 9.84 GB | 423 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 136 FPS | 95 | 15.08 GB | 360 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 96 FPS | 80 | 7.05 GB | 428 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | Ampere (GA102) |
| CUDA cores | 10,752 |
| VRAM | 24GB GDDR6X |
| Memory bus | 384-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 1008 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 1,860 MHz |
| TDP | 450 W |
| Process | 8nm |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2022-03-29 |
| Launch MSRP | $1,999 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti averages 143 FPS at 1440p on our suite. We have not put this card on our bench yet. The numbers below are interpolated from the cards we did measure, on the same suite and the same settings.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #8 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce RTX 4080 Super | 117% | 167 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | 115% | 164 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 | 114% | 163 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT | 103% | 147 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | 100% | 143 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super | 99% | 141 | |
| GeForce RTX 5070 Ti | 98% | 140 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT | 96% | 137 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT | 92% | 132 |
Same card, other workloads: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti AI benchmarks, LLM tokens/sec, image generation & VRAM fit
| Transistors | 28,300 million |
| Die size | 628.4 mm² |
| Fabricated by | Samsung |
| Transistor density | 45 million per mm² |
Denser than 49% of the 76 cards we have silicon data for. Density is the clearest measure of what a process node bought: a card that gained it without growing the die got its speed from the fab rather than the architecture.
Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.
Whole-job timings, composed from our measured per-model results on this card.
| Workflow | Time | Energy | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24-frame storyboard | 6.3 min | 37.71 Wh | all 2 stages measured |
| 60-second AI short film | 9.9 min | 50.99 Wh | all 3 stages measured |
| Full codebase review | 11.3 min | 49.88 Wh | measured |
| 10 short social clips | 33.1 min | 207.05 Wh | all 3 stages measured |
Can't run: 40-product photo shoot (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), 6-panel comic page (needs FLUX.1 dev), 20 long-form articles (needs Llama 3.3 70B), Character sheet, 12 poses (needs FLUX.1 dev), 100-photo restoration batch (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), 100-photo restore and enlarge (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev).
This card is $1,999 to buy. The cheapest listed rate on RunPod is $0.270/hour, but that is the floor: we budget $0.324/hour, a 20% premium, because idle time, storage and unavailable cheap instances all land on the same bill. At that rate buying wins after 6,170 GPU-hours. Below it you are paying for idle silicon.
| How you would use it | GPU-hours a year | Rental cost a year | Time to break even |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 hours a day, hobby | 730 | $237 | 8.5 years |
| 8 hours a day, working on it | 2,920 | $946 | 2.1 years |
| 24/7, always-on agent | 8,760 | $2,838 | 8.5 months |
At hobby usage this card is very unlikely to pay for itself before it is superseded. Rent it. Rental figures include a 20% premium over the cheapest listed rate. Ignores electricity, resale and the fact that a rented card can be a newer one tomorrow.
Cheapest of the RunPod and Vast on-demand rates we see, sampled daily. Spot and interruptible pricing runs lower.