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A100 vs RTX 4090

The A100 delivers 312 TFLOPS with 80GB for enterprise AI, while the RTX 4090 provides 83 TFLOPS with 24GB for consumer use. Choose A100 for datacenter, RTX 4090 for desktop.

Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia A100

The Nvidia A100 is a data center GPU on the Ampere architecture, released Q2 2020, with 80 GB HBM2e and 1,935 GB/s memory bandwidth on the PCIe variant.

High Performance Datacenter

Nvidia logo Nvidia RTX 4090

The Nvidia RTX 4090 is a consumer GPU on the Ada Lovelace architecture, released Q4 2022, with 24 GB GDDR6X and 1,010 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Mid-Range Consumer

Memory per GPU

3.3x more on A100
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80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe
Nvidia logo RTX 4090
24 GB GDDR6X

Memory bandwidth

1.9x higher on A100
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1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe
Nvidia logo RTX 4090
1,010 GB/s

GPU interconnect

Nvidia logo A100
NVLink 600 GB/s
Nvidia logo RTX 4090
PCIe only

Peak performance (FP16)

3.8x higher on A100
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312 TFLOPS
Nvidia logo RTX 4090
83 TFLOPS

Vendor peak figures. Sparsity and tensor-core conventions differ between vendors.

Precision support

Nvidia logo A100
FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 FP64 INT4 INT8
Nvidia logo RTX 4090
FP8 FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

Nvidia logo A100
Ampere
Nvidia logo RTX 4090
Ada Lovelace

Released

2 years newer on RTX 4090
Nvidia logo A100
Q2 2020
Nvidia logo RTX 4090
Q4 2022

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

Source: A100 datasheet and RTX 4090 datasheet.

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

3.3x higher on A100
Nvidia logo A100
$0.54 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 4090
$0.16 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

4.1x higher on A100
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$1.77 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 4090
$0.43 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Spot floor

1.9x higher on A100
Nvidia logo A100
$0.21 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 4090
$0.11 / GPU / hr

Full price range

Nvidia logo A100
$0.21 - $5.04 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 4090
$0.11 - $1.14 / GPU / hr

Lowest to highest listing per GPU-hour, across on-demand, spot, reserved and custom.

Providers listing it

26 more on A100
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42
Nvidia logo RTX 4090
16

Price, last 90 days

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+2%
Nvidia logo RTX 4090
−14%

Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market.

Heads up: Prices are estimates from published rates for common setups and vary by region and usage; verify with the provider before provisioning.

Offers and availability

How this list works

Order

Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
  3. Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.

The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.

Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.

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Our data for Nvidia A100 was last updated on Aug. 26, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4090 on Aug. 26, 2026.