Nvidia L4 vs Nvidia RTX 5090

The RTX 5090 is newer, with 33% more memory and 6x the bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

33% more on RTX 5090

L4: 24 GB

RTX 5090: 32 GB

Memory bandwidth

6x higher on RTX 5090

L4: 300 GB/s

RTX 5090: 1,792 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

7% cheaper on L4

L4: $0.33 /GPU/hr

RTX 5090: $0.35 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L4	RTX 5090	Difference
On-demand	$0.83 /GPU/hr from $0.33	$0.71 /GPU/hr from $0.35	14% cheaper on RTX 5090
Reserved	$0.51 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)	$0.62 /GPU/hr from $0.21 (1 mo)	18% cheaper on L4
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29	-- /GPU/hr from $0.25

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. No median for spot on the L4 and spot on the RTX 5090: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

L4 vs RTX 5090 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L4	RTX 5090	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	32 GB GDDR7	33% more on RTX 5090
Bandwidth	300 GB/s	1,792 GB/s	6x higher on RTX 5090
Bus width	192-bit	512-bit	2.7x wider on RTX 5090
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	1,676 TFLOPS	RTX 5090 only
FP8	242 TFLOPS	419 TFLOPS	73% higher on RTX 5090
FP16 / BF16	121 TFLOPS	209.5 TFLOPS	73% higher on RTX 5090
INT8	242 TOPS	838 TOPS	3.5x higher on RTX 5090
FP32	30.3 TFLOPS	104.8 TFLOPS	3.5x higher on RTX 5090
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	72 W	575 W	8x higher on RTX 5090
Released	Q1 2023	Q1 2025	2 years newer on RTX 5090
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: L4 datasheet and RTX 5090 datasheet.

Where to rent them

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

Provider	L4	RTX 5090
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.51 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	$1.23 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	$0.85 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Jarvislabs India	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Scaleway France	$0.88 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Hexabyte Sweden	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Leaseweb Netherlands	$0.43 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
HyperAI Hong Kong	--	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	--	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lium Distributed	--	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	--	$0.71 /GPU/hr On-demand
Nova Cloud Canada	--	$0.72 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe