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 6000 Ada is PCIe only.

At a glance

Updated 5 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
$0.86 /GPU/hr
10 providers

Price comparison

Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.

Billing RTX 3090 RTX 6000 Ada Difference
On-demand $0.10 $0.86 8.6x more expensive on RTX 6000 Ada
Spot $0.09 No spot listings
Reserved $0.06 $1.04 17x more expensive on RTX 6000 Ada
Median $0.31 $1.23 4x more expensive on RTX 6000 Ada

Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Price history

RTX 3090 vs RTX 6000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months
Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec RTX 3090 RTX 6000 Ada Difference
Memory
Capacity 24 GB GDDR6X 48 GB GDDR6 2x more on RTX 6000 Ada
Bandwidth 936 GB/s 960 GB/s Within 5%
Bus width 384-bit 384-bit Identical
Compute · dense
FP8 Not supported 728.5 TFLOPS RTX 6000 Ada only
FP16 / BF16 71.2 TFLOPS 364.2 TFLOPS 5.1x higher on RTX 6000 Ada
INT8 284.7 TOPS
FP32 35.6 TFLOPS 91.1 TFLOPS 2.6x higher on RTX 6000 Ada
Platform
Interconnect NVLink 112 GB/s PCIe only NVLink on RTX 3090 only
Board power 350 W 300 W 1.2x higher on RTX 3090
Released Q3 2020 Q4 2022 2 years newer on RTX 6000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: RTX 3090 datasheet and RTX 6000 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 6000 Ada /GPU/hr
TensorDock logo TensorDock On-Demand $0.31 On-Demand $0.86
SwissGPU logo SwissGPU On-Demand $0.31 On-Demand $1.23
Runpod logo Runpod Reservation on request Reservation on request
HyperAI logo HyperAI On-Demand $0.10 --
Theta EdgeCloud logo Theta EdgeCloud On-Demand $0.13 --
Salad logo Salad On-Demand $0.25 --
GPU.ai logo GPU.ai On-Demand $0.22 --
EmpirioLabs AI logo EmpirioLabs AI On-Demand $0.40 --
DigitalOcean logo DigitalOcean -- On-Demand $1.57
AceCloud logo AceCloud -- Reserved (12mo) $1.04
Sesterce logo Sesterce -- On-Demand $0.66
Novita logo Novita -- On-Demand $0.77
Massed Compute logo Massed Compute -- On-Demand $0.79

8 providers list the RTX 3090 and 10 the RTX 6000 Ada. Every listing is on the RTX 3090 page and the RTX 6000 Ada page.

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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3090 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.