GeForce RTX 3090 vs GeForce GTX TITAN Z

GeForce RTX 3090
Memory: 24576Mb GDDR6XDESKTOP
Release date: 1 Sep 2020
GeForce RTX 3090
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 28 May 2014
GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3090

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 3090

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 3090

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 3090GeForce GTX TITAN Z
GPU NameGA102 (GA102-300-A1)vsGK110B (GK110-430-B1)
Fab Process8 nmvs28 nm
Die Size628 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors28,000 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders10496vs2880
Compute Units82vs15
Core clock1395 MHzvs705 MHz
ROPs112vs48
TMUs328vs240

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3090GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory TypeGDDR6XvsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed1219 MHz
19.5 Gbps effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size24576 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3090GeForce GTX TITAN Z
TDP350 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date1 Sep 2020vs28 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3090
    189.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    84.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3090
    556.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    338.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3090
    936.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    672.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3090
    35580.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    8122.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better