GPU Benchmarks NVIDIA Titan RTX vs. NVIDIA RTX 3090

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We benchmark NVIDIA Titan RTX vs NVIDIA RTX 3090 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).

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Featured GPU benchmarks:

Benchmarks

Deep Learning GPU Benchmarks 2024–2025 [Updated]

As of May 2025

Resnet50 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
599.29 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1071 points
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
1793.02 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
2922 points
higher is better

Resnet50 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
938.63 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
3015.66 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
higher is better

Resnet50 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
330.9 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
596 points
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
1111.27 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1625 points
higher is better

Resnet50 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
364.35 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
1231.15 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
higher is better

Resnet152 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
267.62 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
491 points
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
751.47 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1029 points
higher is better

Resnet152 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
369.05 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
1205.22 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
higher is better

Resnet152 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
139.43 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
223 points
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
450.18 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
434 points
higher is better

Resnet152 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
147.6 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
502.34 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
higher is better

Inception V3 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
374 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
715 points
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
1226.21 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1720 points
higher is better

Inception V3 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
543.32 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
1901.16 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
higher is better

Inception V3 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
226.3 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
399 points
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
814.29 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1267 points
higher is better

Inception V3 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
244.12 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
967.93 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
higher is better

Inception V4 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
200.71 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
383 points
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
664.39 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1022 points
higher is better

Inception V4 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
298.5 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
1042.2 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
higher is better

Inception V4 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
111.56 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
156 points
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
394.81 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
319 points
higher is better

Inception V4 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
118.83 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
427.81 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
higher is better

VGG16 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
366.59 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
577 points
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
518.28 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1004 points
higher is better

VGG16 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
504.48 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
1235.83 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
higher is better

VGG16 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
199.68 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
341 points
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
400.25 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1077 points
higher is better

VGG16 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
218.47 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
559.34 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
higher is better

3D, GPU Rendering Benchmarks 2024–2025 [Updated]

As of May 2025

V-Ray

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
382 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
2185 points
higher is better

Octane

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
377 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
769 points
higher is better

Redshift

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
8.2 minutes
NVIDIA RTX 3090
2.3 minutes
lower is better

Blender

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
3434.73 score
NVIDIA RTX 3090
6010.36 score
higher is better

Luxmark

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
36654 points
NVIDIA RTX 3090
95123 points
higher is better

Unreal Engine

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3090
47.6 FPS
higher is better

RELION Cryo-EM Benchmarks 2024-2025 [Updated]

As of May 2025

Total run time

1 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3090
165.9 Min
4 GPU
NVIDIA Titan RTX
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 3090
57.1 Min
lower is better

Technical Specifications

Board Design

NVIDIA Titan RTXNVIDIA RTX 3090Difference
Length11 in / 267 mm13 in / 336 mm3 in / 69 mm (26%)
Outputs1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Power Connectors2x 8-pin1x 12-pin
Slot widthDual-slotTriple-slot
TDP280 W350 W70 W (25%)

Clock Speeds

NVIDIA Titan RTXNVIDIA RTX 3090Difference
Boost Clock1770 MHz1695 MHz-75 MHz (-4%)
GPU Clock1350 MHz1395 MHz45 MHz (3%)
Memory Clock14000 MHz19500 MHz5500 MHz (39%)

Graphics Card

NVIDIA Titan RTXNVIDIA RTX 3090Difference
Bus InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
GenerationGeForce 20GeForce 30

Graphics Features

NVIDIA Titan RTXNVIDIA RTX 3090Difference
DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL23
OpenGL4.64.6-
Shader Model6.56.6
CUDA7.58.6

Graphics Processor

NVIDIA Titan RTXNVIDIA RTX 3090Difference
ArchitectureTuringAmpere
Die Size754 mm2628 mm2-126 mm2 (-17%)
GPU NameTU102-400-A1GA102-300-A1
Process Size12 nm8 nm-4 nm (-33%)
Transistors18600 million28300 million9700 million (52%)

Memory

NVIDIA Titan RTXNVIDIA RTX 3090Difference
Bandwidth672 GB/s936.2 GB/s264.2 GB/s (39%)
Memory Bus384 bit384 bit-
Memory Size24 GB24 GB-
Memory TypeGDDR6GDDR6X

Render Config

NVIDIA Titan RTXNVIDIA RTX 3090Difference
ROPs9611216 (17%)
RT Cores728210 (14%)
Shading Units/ CUDA Cores4608104965888 (128%)
TMUs28832840 (14%)
Tensor Cores576328-248 (-43%)

Theoretical Performance

NVIDIA Titan RTXNVIDIA RTX 3090Difference
FP16 (half) performance32.62 TFLOPS35.58 TFLOPS2.96 TFLOPS (9%)
FP32 (float) performance16.31 TFLOPS35.58 TFLOPS19.27 TFLOPS (118%)
FP64 (double) performance509.8 GFLOPS556 GFLOPS46.2 GFLOPS (9%)
Pixel Rate169.9 GPixel/s189.8 GPixel/s19.9 GPixel/s (12%)
Texture Rate509.8 GTexel/s556 GTexel/s46.2 GTexel/s (9%)

Price

NVIDIA Titan RTXNVIDIA RTX 3090Difference
MSRP$2,499.00$1,499.00-$1,000.00 (-40%)
Release DateDec 18th, 2018Sep 1st, 2020

Test bench configuration

NVIDIA Titan RTXNVIDIA RTX 3090Difference
HardwareBIZON ZX5000 More detailsBIZON X5000 More details
SoftwareDeep learning:
Nvidia Driver: 440
CUDA: 10.1
TensorFlow: 1.14
Batch size: 64
3D Rendering:
Nvidia Driver: 442.19
VRay Benchmark: 4.10.3
Octane Benchmark: 4.00
Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.x
Blender: 2.81
Luxmark: 3.1
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

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NVIDIA Titan RTXNVIDIA RTX 3090Difference
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