GeForce RTX 3090
Nvidia graphics card · GeForce RTX 30 series · launched September 2020
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Launch price in today's dollars
The GeForce RTX 3090 launched at $1,499 in 2020. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $1,916 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 28% rise over 6 years. At its launch price that is 360 Blender points per $100.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2020 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Blender rendering score
Median score 5,398 (middle half of runs 5,172–5,559) across 2,354 community runs on Blender 4.x with the OPTIX backend. That is #15 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #2 of 10 in the GeForce RTX 30 series.
This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.
Specifications
| Vendor | Nvidia |
|---|---|
| Series | GeForce RTX 30 series |
| Launched | September 2020 |
| Launch price | $1,499 |
| Architecture | Ampere |
| Chip | GA102-300-A1 |
| Memory | 24 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6X |
| Memory bus | 384-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 936.2 GB/s |
| Core clock | 1,395 MHz (boost 1,695 MHz) |
| FP32 compute | 35.58 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 350 W (TDP) |
| Transistors | 28.3 billion |
| Die size | 628.4 mm² |
| Bus interface | PCIe 4 x16 |
| Tier | 90-class |
The Nvidia 90-class over time
Nvidia graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.
| Part | Year | Launch price | In 2026 $ | Blender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce GTX 295 | 2009 | $499 | $769 | — |
| GeForce GTX 295 Single PCB | 2009 | $499 | $769 | — |
| GeForce GTX 590 | 2011 | $699 | $1,028 | — |
| GeForce GTX 690 | 2012 | $999 | $1,440 | — |
| GeForce RTX 3090 | 2020 | $1,499 | $1,916 | 5,398 |
| GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | 2022 | $1,999 | $2,261 | 5,633 |
| GeForce RTX 4090 | 2022 | $1,599 | $1,808 | 11,078 |
| GeForce RTX 5090 | 2025 | $1,999 | $2,054 | 14,998 |
Compare with
- GeForce RTX 3080 · 2020 · $699 · 4,516
- GeForce RTX 3080 Ti · 2021 · $1,199 · 5,317
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