A consumer GPU against a workstation card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 24 GB GDDR6X against 20 GB GDDR6, 2.6x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 3090, and NVLink 112 GB/s on the RTX 3090 where the RTX 4000 Ada is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 936 GB/s
- From
- $0.10 /GPU/hr
- 8 providers
- Memory
- 20 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- From
- $0.52 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 3090 | RTX 4000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.10 | $0.52 | 5.2x more expensive on RTX 4000 Ada |
| Spot | $0.09 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.06 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.31 | $0.75 | 2.4x more expensive on RTX 4000 Ada |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 3090 vs RTX 4000 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 3090 | RTX 4000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6X | 20 GB GDDR6 | 1.2x more on RTX 3090 |
| Bandwidth | 936 GB/s | 360 GB/s | 2.6x higher on RTX 3090 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 160-bit | 2.4x wider on RTX 3090 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 213.8 TFLOPS | RTX 4000 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 71.2 TFLOPS | 106.9 TFLOPS | 1.5x higher on RTX 4000 Ada |
| INT8 | 284.7 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 35.6 TFLOPS | 26.7 TFLOPS | 1.3x higher on RTX 3090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 112 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on RTX 3090 only |
| Board power | 350 W | 130 W | 2.7x higher on RTX 3090 |
| Released | Q3 2020 | Q3 2023 | 3 years newer on RTX 4000 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 3090 datasheet and RTX 4000 Ada datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX 3090 /GPU/hr | RTX 4000 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Runpod
|
Reservation on request | Reservation on request |
HyperAI
|
On-Demand $0.10 | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
On-Demand $0.13 | -- |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.25 | -- |
SwissGPU
|
On-Demand $0.31 | -- |
TensorDock
|
On-Demand $0.31 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.22 | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $0.40 | -- |
Akamai Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.52 |
DigitalOcean
|
-- | On-Demand $0.76 |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $0.87 |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3090 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.