Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 8 GB GDDR6 against 32 GB GDDR7 and 4x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 5090.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.07 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
- 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 | RTX 3060 Ti | RTX 5090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.07 | $0.35 | 5.1x more expensive on RTX 5090 |
| Spot | $0.03 | $0.25 | 8.3x more expensive on RTX 5090 |
| Reserved | $0.25 | $0.21 | 16% cheaper on RTX 5090 |
| Median | $0.08 | $0.69 | 8.6x more expensive on RTX 5090 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 3060 Ti vs RTX 5090 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 3060 Ti | RTX 5090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR6 | 32 GB GDDR7 | 4x more on RTX 5090 |
| Bandwidth | 448 GB/s | 1,792 GB/s | 4x 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 | 32.4 TFLOPS | 209.5 TFLOPS | 6.5x higher on RTX 5090 |
| INT8 | 129.6 TOPS | 838 TOPS | 6.5x higher on RTX 5090 |
| FP32 | 16.2 TFLOPS | 104.8 TFLOPS | 6.5x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 200 W | 575 W | 2.9x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Released | Q4 2020 | Q1 2025 | 4 years newer on RTX 5090 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 3060 Ti 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 | RTX 3060 Ti /GPU/hr | RTX 5090 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.07 | On-Demand $10.67 |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.08 | On-Demand $0.45 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
On-Demand $0.10 | On-Demand $0.82 |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.25 | -- |
HyperAI
|
-- | On-Demand $0.35 |
GPUhub
|
-- | On-Demand $0.46 |
Nova Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.63 |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.69 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $53.34 |
4 providers list the RTX 3060 Ti and 20 the RTX 5090. Every listing is on the RTX 3060 Ti page and the RTX 5090 page.
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5090 on Sept. 7, 2026.