Nvidia H200 vs Nvidia RTX 4090

The H200 is newer, with 5.9x the memory and 4.8x the bandwidth. The RTX 4090 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

5.9x more on H200

H200: 141 GB

RTX 4090: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

4.8x higher on H200

H200: 4.80 TB/s

RTX 4090: 1.01 TB/s

Cheapest on-demand

86% cheaper on RTX 4090

H200: $2.09 /GPU/hr

RTX 4090: $0.29 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	H200	RTX 4090	Difference
On-demand	$4.40 /GPU/hr from $2.09	$0.47 /GPU/hr from $0.29	89% cheaper on RTX 4090
Reserved	$4.00 /GPU/hr from $2.23 (1 mo)	$0.52 /GPU/hr from $0.26 (3 mo)	87% cheaper on RTX 4090
Spot	$2.62 /GPU/hr from $1.32	$0.34 /GPU/hr from $0.16	87% cheaper on RTX 4090

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

H200 vs RTX 4090 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	H200	RTX 4090	Difference
Memory
Capacity	141 GB HBM3e	24 GB GDDR6X	5.9x more on H200
Bandwidth	4,800 GB/s	1,010 GB/s	4.8x higher on H200
Bus width		384-bit
Compute · dense
FP8	1,979 TFLOPS	330.3 TFLOPS	6x higher on H200
FP16 / BF16	989.5 TFLOPS	165.2 TFLOPS	6x higher on H200
INT8	1,979 TOPS	660.6 TOPS	3x higher on H200
FP32	67 TFLOPS	82.6 TFLOPS	23% higher on RTX 4090
FP64	34 TFLOPS	Not supported	H200 only
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 900 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on H200 only
Board power	700 W	450 W	56% higher on H200
Released	Q4 2023	Q4 2022	13 months newer on H200
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: H200 datasheet and RTX 4090 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	H200	RTX 4090
Lium Distributed	$2.95 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	$0.36 /GPU/hr On-demand
Vast.ai USA	$3.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.29 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$3.29 /GPU/hr On-demand NVL	$0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	$3.62 /GPU/hr On-demand NVL	--
Hyperstack UK	$3.99 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Jarvislabs India	$3.99 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Runcrate USA	$4.24 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Lyceum Germany	$4.29 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand
Packet·ai USA	--	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPUhub Singapore	--	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand
Oblivus USA	--	$0.64 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe