As the RTX 3090 has significant potential for use by professionals and content creators, here we run a few extra productivity benchmarks to assess its relative performance for these workloads.
Starting with Blender Classroom. Running the test first using CUDA, we see the RTX 3090 finishing the render is 62 seconds. This marks a 15% reduction in render time compared to the RTX 3080 Founders Edition.
Running the same benchmark, but this time use Optix – which accelerates the workflow by using RTX – we do indeed see overall render times are now even faster. However, this is also the case for the RTX 3080, so the reduction in render time relative to the 3080 is still 15%.