Nvidia RTX 3090 vs Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada

The RTX 5880 Ada is newer and has 2x the memory, with about the same bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on RTX 5880 Ada

RTX 3090: 24 GB

RTX 5880 Ada: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

Within 5%

RTX 3090: 936 GB/s

RTX 5880 Ada: 960 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

RTX 3090: $0.10 /GPU/hr

RTX 5880 Ada: --

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 3090	RTX 5880 Ada
On-demand	$0.30 /GPU/hr from $0.10	No on-demand listings
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06 (1 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.09	No spot listings

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 5880 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3090	RTX 5880 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6X	48 GB GDDR6	2x more on RTX 5880 Ada
Bandwidth	936 GB/s	960 GB/s	Within 5%
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	554.2 TFLOPS	RTX 5880 Ada only
FP16 / BF16	71.2 TFLOPS	277.1 TFLOPS	3.9x higher on RTX 5880 Ada
INT8	284.7 TOPS
FP32	35.6 TFLOPS	69.3 TFLOPS	95% higher on RTX 5880 Ada
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX 3090 only
Board power	350 W	285 W	23% higher on RTX 3090
Released	Q3 2020	Q1 2024	3 years newer on RTX 5880 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: RTX 3090 datasheet and RTX 5880 Ada datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	RTX 3090	RTX 5880 Ada
HyperAI Hong Kong	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.22 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
SwissGPU Switzerland	$0.30 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
TensorDock Distributed	$0.31 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	--