NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

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Reference: GeForce RTX 30 series on Wikipedia

Class: GPU
Memory: 24 GB GDDR6X
Runs (Q4_K_M): —
Bandwidth: 936 GB/s
TDP: 350 W
Released: 2020-09-24
Price (US): $1274 used as of 2026-08
Price (Canada): CA$1900 used sourced, as of 2026-08

Sourcing and disambiguation notes

Discontinued by NVIDIA; no reliable new-retail channel (only sporadic, unconfirmed inflated 'new' marketplace listings, not verified unused stock). Used: resaleprices.com fair range $1,200-1,300, market average $1,274, 344 active US listings, 2026-08-22 -- an eBay category browse confirms a similar range. Canadian price: eBay.ca active pre-owned listings this week, pre-tax, no shipping. Representative of a $1,825-2,000 CAD cluster (Founders Edition pre-owned $1,825; ASUS ROG Strix pre-owned $1,900-2,000; EVGA FTW3 Ultra pre-owned $1,999). Card is long past EOL and out of stock new at Canadian retailers (Canada Computers, Memory Express).

Specification sources

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/rtx-3090/ — vendor, 2020-09-01
https://images.nvidia.com/aem-dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/ampere/pdf/NVIDIA-ampere-GA102-GPU-Architecture-Whitepaper-V1.pdf — vendor, 2020-09-01

Measurements

Decode is token generation — the speed you feel while an answer streams. Prefill is prompt processing — the wait before it starts. Why bandwidth predicts decode speed.

What verified, single-source and estimated mean, and the same rows with every filter and sort in the benchmarks explorer.

Speed over time

What it can run

Fit is arithmetic, not a measurement — how it is computed. Against 24 GB; models that fit are listed largest first.