A workstation GPU against a consumer card, one Maxwell and one Blackwell: 8 GB GDDR5 against 32 GB GDDR7 and 9.3x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 5090.
At a glance
Updated 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- From
- $0.45 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 32 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.79 TB/s
- From
- $0.35 /GPU/hr
- 20 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | M4000 | RTX 5090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.45 | $0.35 | 22% cheaper on RTX 5090 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.21 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.21 | |
| Median | $0.45 | $0.63 | 29% cheaper on M4000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
M4000 vs RTX 5090 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | M4000 | RTX 5090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5 | 32 GB GDDR7 | 4x more on RTX 5090 |
| Bandwidth | 192 GB/s | 1,792 GB/s | 9.3x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 512-bit | 2x wider on RTX 5090 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 1,676 TFLOPS | RTX 5090 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 419 TFLOPS | RTX 5090 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | Not supported | 209.5 TFLOPS | RTX 5090 only |
| INT8 | Not supported | 838 TOPS | RTX 5090 only |
| FP32 | 2.6 TFLOPS | 104.8 TFLOPS | 41x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 120 W | 575 W | 4.8x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Released | Q2 2015 | Q1 2025 | 10 years newer on RTX 5090 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP32 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: M4000 datasheet and RTX 5090 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | M4000 /GPU/hr | RTX 5090 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Paperspace
|
On-Demand $0.45 | -- |
HyperAI
|
-- | On-Demand $0.35 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.38 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.43 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.45 |
GPUhub
|
-- | On-Demand $0.46 |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.50 |
Nova Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.63 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.69 |
1 provider list the M4000 and 20 the RTX 5090. Every listing is on the M4000 page and the RTX 5090 page.
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Our data for Nvidia M4000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5090 on Sept. 7, 2026.