A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 24 GB HBM2 against 24 GB GDDR6X and 8% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 4090.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 933 GB/s
- From
- $0.70 /GPU/hr
- 7 providers
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.01 TB/s
- From
- $0.23 /GPU/hr
- 17 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A30 | RTX 4090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.70 | $0.23 | 3x more expensive on A30 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.16 | |
| Reserved | $0.43 | $0.27 | 37% cheaper on RTX 4090 |
| Median | $0.77 | $0.44 | 44% cheaper on RTX 4090 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A30 vs RTX 4090 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A30 | RTX 4090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB HBM2 | 24 GB GDDR6X | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 933 GB/s | 1,010 GB/s | 1.1x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | ||
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 330.3 TFLOPS | RTX 4090 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 165 TFLOPS | 165.2 TFLOPS | Within 5% |
| INT8 | 330 TOPS | 660.6 TOPS | 2x higher on RTX 4090 |
| FP32 | 10.3 TFLOPS | 82.6 TFLOPS | 8x higher on RTX 4090 |
| FP64 | 5.2 TFLOPS | Not supported | A30 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 165 W | 450 W | 2.7x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q4 2022 | 2 years newer on RTX 4090 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A30 datasheet and RTX 4090 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A30 /GPU/hr | RTX 4090 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Leafcloud
|
On-Demand $0.70 | -- |
Exoscale
|
On-Demand $0.74 | -- |
Leaseweb
|
Reserved (1mo) $0.43 | -- |
AceCloud
|
Reserved (12mo) $0.67 | -- |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $0.35 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.39 | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $0.55 | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.23 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.30 |
Novita
|
-- | On-Demand $0.33 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.34 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.34 |
Packet·ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.39 |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.58 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $4.00 |
7 providers list the A30 and 17 the RTX 4090. Every listing is on the A30 page and the RTX 4090 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A30 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4090 on Sept. 7, 2026.