RTX 3090 vs V100 - GPU Benchmark Comparison

Direct performance comparison between the RTX 3090 and V100 across 12 standardized AI benchmarks collected from our production fleet. Testing shows the RTX 3090 winning 12 out of 12 benchmarks (100% win rate), while the V100 wins 0 tests. All 12 benchmark results are automatically gathered from active rental servers, providing real-world performance data rather than synthetic testing.

LLM Inference Performance: RTX 3090 21% faster

In language model inference testing across 4 different models, the RTX 3090 is 21% faster than the V100 on average. For qwen3:8b inference, the RTX 3090 achieves 122 tokens/s compared to V100's 99 tokens/s, making the RTX 3090 significantly faster with a 24% advantage. Overall, the RTX 3090 wins 4 out of 4 LLM tests with an average 21% performance difference, making it the stronger choice for transformer model inference workloads.

Image Generation Performance: RTX 3090 31% faster

Evaluating AI image generation across 8 different Stable Diffusion models, the RTX 3090 is 31% faster than the V100 in this category. When testing sd3.5-medium, the RTX 3090 completes generations at 31 s/image compared to V100's 43 s/image, making the RTX 3090 significantly faster with a 38% advantage. Across all 8 image generation benchmarks, the RTX 3090 wins 8 tests with an average 31% performance difference, establishing it as the preferred GPU for Stable Diffusion, SDXL, and Flux deployments.

About These Benchmarks of RTX 3090 vs V100

Our benchmarks are collected automatically from servers having gpus of type RTX 3090 and V100 in our fleet using standardized test suites:

LLM Inference (Ollama & VLLM): Measures tokens per second of RTX 3090 compared to V100 for LLM inference using various models (Llama, Qwen, etc.) on both Ollama and VLLM with FP8 quantization
Image Generation: Measures images per minute and seconds per image for AI image generation on the RTX 3090 compared to V100
CPU: Single-core and multi-core operations per second representing GPU Servers you can rent with RTX 3090 or V100
NVMe: Read and write speeds in MB/s for storage performance on GPU Servers typically equipped with RTX 3090 or V100

Note: RTX 3090 and V100 AI Benchmark Results may vary based on system load, configuration, and specific hardware revisions. These benchmarks represent median values from multiple test runs of RTX 3090 and V100.