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RTX 4090 vs RTX 3090

Signed, community-submitted decode tok/s, prefill, and TTFT for RTX 4090 vs RTX 3090 — every number links to the run it came from.

Verdict

On qwen2.5-coder, the RTX 4090 leads — 161 tok/s decode versus 139 tok/s on the RTX 3090, 1.2× faster. Across 2 models measured on both, RTX 4090 is faster on 2 of 2. Every cell in the table below links to the submitted run it came from.

hardware
RTX 4090
NVIDIA Ada/Blackwell · 24 GB VRAM
View RTX 4090 page →
hardware
RTX 3090
NVIDIA Ampere · 24 GB VRAM
View RTX 3090 page →

Models that have data on both rigs

ModelRTX 4090 decodeRTX 3090 decodeΔSource runs
qwen2.5-coder161.1tok/s139.2tok/s+22.0r_mv8n8k9wu1e · r_pb0jpnbujji
llama3.1154.4tok/s136.2tok/s+18.2r_h1ub_1uxzdh · r_9hurqggbshk

See also: RTX 4090 benchmarks · RTX 3090 benchmarks · All hardware · All models · Methodology