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Best GPUs for deep learning, AI development, compute in 2023–2024. Recommended GPU & hardware for AI training, inference (LLMs, generative AI). GPU training, inference benchmarks using PyTorch, TensorFlow for computer vision (CV), NLP, text-to-speech, etc.
We benchmark these GPUs and compare AI performance (deep learning training; FP16, FP32, PyTorch, TensorFlow), 3d rendering, Cryo-EM performance in the most popular apps (Octane, VRay, Redshift, Blender, Luxmark, Unreal Engine, Relion Cryo-EM).
Our benchmarks will help you decide which GPU (NVIDIA RTX 4090/4080, H100 Hopper, H200, A100, RTX 6000 Ada, A6000, A5000, or RTX 6000 ADA Lovelace) is the best GPU for your needs. We provide an in-depth analysis of the AI performance of each graphic card's performance so you can make the most informed decision possible. We offer deep learning and 3d rendering benchmarks that will help you get the most out of your hardware.
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- NVIDIA A6000 vs. A5000 vs. NVIDIA RTX 3090
- NVIDIA A100 vs. NVIDIA A6000
- NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti vs. Titan RTX vs Quadro RTX8000
Benchmarks
Deep Learning AI GPU Benchmarks 2025 [Updated]
Resnet50 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1071
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
2922
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Resnet50 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Resnet50 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
596
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1625
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Resnet50 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Resnet152 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
491
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1029
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Resnet152 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Resnet152 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
223
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
434
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Resnet152 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Inception V3 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
715
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1720
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Inception V3 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Inception V3 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
399
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1267
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Inception V3 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Inception V4 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
383
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1022
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Inception V4 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Inception V4 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
156
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
319
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Inception V4 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
VGG16 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
577
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1004
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
VGG16 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
VGG16 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
341
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1077
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
VGG16 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Googlenet (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Googlenet (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
(copy)
3D, GPU Rendering Benchmarks 2025 [Updated]
V-Ray
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
2185
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Octane
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
769
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Redshift
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
2.3
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Blender
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
6010.36
NVIDIA RTX 4070
6026.47
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Luxmark
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
95123
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Unreal Engine
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
47.6
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
RELION Cryo-EM Benchmarks 2025 [Updated]
Total run time
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
165.9
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
57.1
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
BERT LARGE Training, Inference Benchmark 2025 [Updated]
Training Time (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Performance (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Training Time (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Performance (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
LLM Inference Benchmark 2025 [Updated]
Llama3.1 70B
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
2 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Llama3.1 405B
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
2 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
OpenAI gpt-oss-20b (FP4)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
OpenAI gpt-oss-120b (FP4)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
Technical Specifications
Board Design
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | |
|---|---|---|
| Length | 336 mm | 240 mm |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort |
| Power Connectors | 1x 12-pin | 1x 16-pin |
| Slot width | Triple-slot | Dual-slot |
| TDP | 350 W | 200 W |
Clock Speeds
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | |
|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 1695 MHz | 2475 MHz |
| GPU Clock | 1395 MHz | 1920 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 19500 MHz | 21000 MHz |
Graphics Card
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Generation | GeForce 30 | GeForce 40 |
Graphics Features
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | 6.7 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | 8.9 |
Graphics Processor
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| Die Size | 628 mm2 | 295 mm2 |
| GPU Name | GA102-300-A1 | AD104-250-A1 |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 5 nm |
| Transistors | 28300 million | 35800 million |
Memory
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth | 936.2 GB/s | 504.2 GB/s |
| Memory Bus | 384 bit | 192 bit |
| Memory Size | 24 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6X | GDDR6X |
Render Config
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | |
|---|---|---|
| ROPs | 112 | 64 |
| RT Cores | 82 | 46 |
| Shading Units/ CUDA Cores | 10496 | 5888 |
| TMUs | 328 | 184 |
| Tensor Cores | 328 | 184 |
Theoretical Performance
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | |
|---|---|---|
| FP16 (half) performance | 35.58 TFLOPS | 29.15 TFLOPS |
| FP32 (float) performance | 35.58 TFLOPS | 29.15 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) performance | 556 GFLOPS | 455.4 GFLOPS |
| Pixel Rate | 189.8 GPixel/s | 158.4 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 556 GTexel/s | 455.4 GTexel/s |
Price
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | |
|---|---|---|
| MSRP | 1499 $ | 599 $ |
| Release Date | Sep 1st, 2020 | Apr 13th, 2023 |
Test bench configuration
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware | BIZON X5000 More details | BIZON X5500 More details |
| Software | 3D Rendering: Nvidia Driver: 456.38 VRay Benchmark: 5 Octane Benchmark: 2020.1.5 Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.28 Demo Blender: 2.90 Luxmark: 3.1 | 3D Rendering: Nvidia Driver: VRay Benchmark: Octane Benchmark: Redshift Benchmark: Blender: Luxmark: |
Recommended hardware
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | |
|---|---|---|
| Best GPU workstations | BIZON X5500 | BIZON X5500 |