Nvidia RTX 3050 vs Nvidia RTX 4090

The RTX 4090 has 3x the memory and 4.5x the bandwidth. The RTX 3050 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on RTX 4090

RTX 3050: 8 GB

RTX 4090: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

4.5x higher on RTX 4090

RTX 3050: 224 GB/s

RTX 4090: 1,010 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

77% cheaper on RTX 3050

RTX 3050: $0.07 /GPU/hr

RTX 4090: $0.31 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 3050	RTX 4090
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07	$0.48 /GPU/hr from $0.31
Reserved	No reserved listings	$0.52 /GPU/hr from $0.26 (3 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03	$0.32 /GPU/hr from $0.16

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 on-demand and spot on the RTX 3050: 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

RTX 3050 vs RTX 4090 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3050	RTX 4090	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6X	3x more on RTX 4090
Bandwidth	224 GB/s	1,010 GB/s	4.5x higher on RTX 4090
Bus width	128-bit	384-bit	3x wider on RTX 4090
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	330.3 TFLOPS	RTX 4090 only
FP16 / BF16	18.2 TFLOPS	165.2 TFLOPS	9.1x higher on RTX 4090
INT8	72.8 TOPS	660.6 TOPS	9.1x higher on RTX 4090
FP32	9.1 TFLOPS	82.6 TFLOPS	9.1x higher on RTX 4090
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	130 W	450 W	3.5x higher on RTX 4090
Released	Q1 2022	Q4 2022	8 months newer on RTX 4090
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: RTX 3050 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	RTX 3050	RTX 4090
Salad Distributed	$0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand
Vast.ai USA	--	$0.31 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.34 /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
Lium Distributed	--	$0.58 /GPU/hr On-demand
Oblivus USA	--	$0.64 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe