RTX 3090 vs RTX 5090
Best sourced output tok/s per model (single-stream generation) — engine and version, quantization, context and a source link on every row. Hover a value for the quant.
RTX 309018 sourced runs · best 709.5 tok/s
RTX 509023 verified runs · best 446.7 tok/s
Specs and evidence
| RTX 3090 | RTX 5090 | |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 24 GB | 32 GB |
| Sourced runs on the board | 18 | 23 |
| Models measured | 11 | 16 |
| Best output tok/s | 709.5 tok/s | 446.7 tok/s |
| Highest measured peak VRAM | 22.0 GB | 31.3 GB |
| Street price (latest snapshot) | $1,720 | — |
Head-to-head
On the 2 models measured on both cards, RTX 3090 leads on 0, RTX 5090 on 2. The widest gap is on Qwen3.8-27B: RTX 3090 164.6 tok/s vs RTX 5090 435.1 tok/s (RTX 5090 164% faster).
The measured matrix
| Model | RTX 3090 | RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct | 709.5 | — |
| Qwen3.5-0.8B-MTP | 476.1 | — |
| NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B | 353.7 | 446.7 |
| Qwen3.8-27B | 164.6 | 435.1 |
| LFM2.5-2.6B | 305.6 | — |
| Ornith-1.0-35B-PrismaAURA-4.75bit-vllm-MTP | — | 283.1 |
| Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct | — | 280.8 |
| Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B | — | 258.8 |
| North-Mini-Code-1.0 | — | 258.4 |
| Qwen3.5-4B-MTP | 240.4 | — |
| Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP | — | 222.9 |
| Laguna-XS-2.1 | — | 216.7 |
| KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev-AWQ-W4A16-ASYM | — | 201.2 |
| Ornith-1.0-35B | — | 196.6 |
| Qwen3.5-9B-MTP | 164.3 | — |
| Muse-Glimmer-30B | — | 124.8 |
| Qwen3.6-27B | — | 120.9 |
| Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated | — | 117.7 |
| Qwen3.8-27B-5090-goldilocks | — | 93.5 |
| Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | 38.6 | — |
| Ornstein3.6-27B-MTP-NSC-ACE-SABER | 32.9 | — |
| Qwen3.6-27B-MTP | — | 28.3 |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | 28.1 | — |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 | — | 26.4 |
| DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash | 26.0 | — |