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+292%
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Best Bench: 230% EVGA(3842 3982) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 185% EVGA(3842 3982) ≥ 4GB
Poor: 185% Great: 230%
SPEED RANK: 10th / 713
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Best Bench: 57% PowerColor(148C 2357) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 48% Sapphire(174B E324)
Poor: 48% Great: 57%
SPEED RANK: 121st / 713
Effective 3D Speed
Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed 		210 % Hugely faster effective speed.
+292% 		53.5 %
Average Score 
+344%
Lighting
Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 		310 fps Hugely better lighting effects.
+344% 		69.8 fps
Reflection
Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 		302 fps Hugely better reflection handling.
+306% 		74.3 fps
MRender
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere) 		350 fps Hugely faster multi rendering.
+434% 		65.6 fps
Gravity
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 		254 fps Hugely faster NBody calculation.
+290% 		65.1 fps
Overclocked Score 
+378%
Lighting
Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 		349 fps Hugely better peak lighting effects.
+359% 		76 fps
Reflection
High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 		386 fps Hugely better peak reflection handling.
+400% 		77.2 fps
MRender
Render target array GShader (Sphere) 		378 fps Hugely faster peak multi rendering.
+457% 		67.9 fps
Gravity
NBody particle system (Galaxy) 		274 fps Hugely faster peak NBody calculation.
+297% 		69 fps
Value & Sentiment 
+∞%
Market Share
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Market Share (trailing 30 days) 		0.87 % Insanely higher market share.
+∞% 		0 %
Value
Value For Money 		35.5 % 37.3 % Slightly better value.
+5%
User Rating
UBM User Rating 		72 % More popular.
+18% 		61 %
Price
Price (score) 		$1,400 $340 Much cheaper.
+76%
Nice To Haves 
+239%
Age
Newest 		49 Months Much more recent.
+57% 		113 Months
Parallax
Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 		373 fps Hugely better peak texture detail.
+269% 		101 fps
Splatting
Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 		196 fps Hugely faster peak complex splatting.
+310% 		47.8 fps
Parallax
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 		329 fps Hugely better texture detail.
+256% 		92.3 fps
Splatting
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 		186 fps Hugely faster complex splatting.
+303% 		46.2 fps
Conclusion 
Average Bench 210%
Average Bench 53.5%

The RTX 3090 is Nvidia’s 3000 series flagship. It takes the crown as the fastest consumer graphics card money can buy. Nvidia’s new Ampere architecture, which supersedes Turing, offers both improved power efficiency and performance. The 3090 features 10,496 CUDA cores and 328 Tensor cores, it has a base clock of 1.4 GHz boosting to 1.7 GHz, 24 GB of memory and a power draw of 350 W. The 3090 offers more than double the memory and beats the previous generation’s flagship RTX 2080 Ti significantly in terms of effective speed. That said, the 3090 also comes with a hefty $1,500 price tag. Professional users, such as game developers, that can make use of 24 GB of memory, may find value in the 3090. Regular users should be wary of the hype around 8k gaming. High end gamers ought to consider the 3080 which offers comparable gaming performance for less than half the money. In terms of real world performance, Nvidia’s 3000 series has more or less put AMD’s Radeon group in checkmate. Nonetheless, AMD’s marketers are capable of delivering elaborate BS albeit whilst struggling to keep a straight face. Their marketing infrastructure outsold Intel in the CPU market despite a 15% performance deficit. Without an appropriate social media marketing strategy, Nvidia will probably lose considerable market share, for all the wrong reasons. [Sep '20 GPUPro]

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The AMD R9 390X is a rebadged power hungry (350W+) 290X. The 390X has a slightly increased GPU clock speed, a significantly increased memory speed and a higher minimum VRAM of 8GB but it shares the same core GPU hardware. Looking at the overclocked performance differences between the older 290X and the 390X shows that the two cards are approximately the same, which comes as no surprise considering that the 390X is actually just a factory overclocked 290X. Smart shoppers obviously won't be happy to pay AMD a premium of around $100 simply for overclocking a two year old 290X. That said the 390X does offer stellar performance, particularly at 4K resolutions and if prices drop significantly it could become a strong contender. We only have one MSI sample benchmark for the 390X so far so we will revisit this GPU when we have a better sample of all the available cards. [Jun '15 GPUPro]

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