Nvidia RTX 3090 vs Nvidia RTX 4090

The RTX 4090 is newer and has 8% more bandwidth, with the same 24 GB of memory. The RTX 3090 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

RTX 3090: 24 GB

RTX 4090: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

8% higher on RTX 4090

RTX 3090: 936 GB/s

RTX 4090: 1,010 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

71% cheaper on RTX 3090

RTX 3090: $0.09 /GPU/hr

RTX 4090: $0.33 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 3090	RTX 4090	Difference
On-demand	$0.19 /GPU/hr from $0.09	$0.46 /GPU/hr from $0.33	58% cheaper on RTX 3090
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06 (1 mo)	$0.52 /GPU/hr from $0.38 (3 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07	$0.38 /GPU/hr from $0.15

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 reserved and spot on the RTX 3090: 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 3090 vs RTX 4090 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3090	RTX 4090	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6X	24 GB GDDR6X	Identical
Bandwidth	936 GB/s	1,010 GB/s	8% higher on RTX 4090
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	330.3 TFLOPS	RTX 4090 only
FP16 / BF16	71.2 TFLOPS	165.2 TFLOPS	2.3x higher on RTX 4090
INT8	284.7 TOPS	660.6 TOPS	2.3x higher on RTX 4090
FP32	35.6 TFLOPS	82.6 TFLOPS	2.3x higher on RTX 4090
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX 3090 only
Board power	350 W	450 W	29% higher on RTX 4090
Released	Q3 2020	Q4 2022	2 years newer on RTX 4090
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: RTX 3090 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 3090	RTX 4090
Vast.ai USA	$0.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lium Distributed	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand
HyperAI Hong Kong	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
SwissGPU Switzerland	$0.30 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
TensorDock Distributed	$0.31 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.38 /GPU/hr On-demand
Packet·ai USA	--	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	--	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe