Head-to-head

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB

Compare recorded specifications and inspect source links for both devices. Speed comparisons appear only when workload, runtime version, quantization, context and batch match.

Device profile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB

Compared here against NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB.

Curated Aggregate·2025-08-0916GB / $999
Speed evidence

Matched rows below

VRAM

16 GB

TDP

320 W

Rating

Not scored

Device profile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB

32B Q4 full-GPU at 35-45 tok/s — or dual 3090s for 70B Q4 at 25-35 tok/s with 48GB combined

Curated Aggregate·2025-05-0124GB / $999
Speed evidence

Matched rows below

VRAM

24 GB

TDP

350 W

Rating

Not scored

Quick verdict

Speed comparisons require matching runtime settings. A missing score means insufficient comparative evidence.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB wins VRAM capacity.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB has the lower published power rating.

MetricNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB
MyAI ratingNot scoredNot scored
Speed comparisonSee matched rows belowSee matched rows below
VRAM16 GB24 GB
TDP320 W350 W
MSRP$999$999
Workloads1010

Shared benchmark rows

No batch-one rows with matching model, quantization, context, runtime and offload notes are available. We cannot calculate a comparable speed difference.
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External quality layer

Best open models likely to fit this class

This shortlist cross-references the external OpenEvals snapshot with an approximate Q4-class VRAM estimate. Use it to sanity-check whether the hardware you are comparing can host strong open models, not just benchmark toy workloads.

Full ingest

microsoft/Phi-3-medium-4k-instruct

14B params · est. 8.4 GB Q4

91.0
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB: likely fitNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB: likely fit

microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

3.8B params · est. 2.3 GB Q4

86.2
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB: likely fitNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB: likely fit

internlm/internlm2_5-7b-chat

7.7B params · est. 4.6 GB Q4

86.0
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB: likely fitNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB: likely fit

microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct

3.8B params · est. 2.3 GB Q4

85.7
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB: likely fitNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB: likely fit