A consumer GPU against a workstation card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 24 GB GDDR6X against 48 GB GDDR6, memory bandwidth within 5%, and NVLink 112 GB/s on the RTX 3090 where the RTX 5880 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
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- --
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 3090 | RTX 5880 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.10 | -- | |
| Spot | $0.09 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.06 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.31 | -- |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 3090 vs RTX 5880 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
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 | 1.9x higher on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 112 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on RTX 3090 only |
| Board power | 350 W | 285 W | 1.2x 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 listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX 3090 /GPU/hr | RTX 5880 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
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 | -- |
Runpod
|
Reservation on request | -- |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.22 | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $0.40 | -- |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3090 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.