Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada vs Nvidia RTX 5050

The RTX 4000 Ada has 2.5x the memory and 13% more bandwidth. The RTX 5050 is newer and cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2.5x more on RTX 4000 Ada

RTX 4000 Ada: 20 GB

RTX 5050: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

13% higher on RTX 4000 Ada

RTX 4000 Ada: 360 GB/s

RTX 5050: 320 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

87% cheaper on RTX 5050

RTX 4000 Ada: $0.52 /GPU/hr

RTX 5050: $0.07 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 4000 Ada	RTX 5050
On-demand	$0.81 /GPU/hr from $0.52	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07
Reserved	On request	No reserved listings
Spot	No spot listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03

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 on-demand and spot on the RTX 5050: 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 4000 Ada vs RTX 5050 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 4000 Ada	RTX 5050	Difference
Memory
Capacity	20 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	2.5x more on RTX 4000 Ada
Bandwidth	360 GB/s	320 GB/s	13% higher on RTX 4000 Ada
Bus width	160-bit	128-bit	25% wider on RTX 4000 Ada
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	210.5 TFLOPS	RTX 5050 only
FP8	213.8 TFLOPS	52.6 TFLOPS	4.1x higher on RTX 4000 Ada
FP16 / BF16	106.9 TFLOPS	26.3 TFLOPS	4.1x higher on RTX 4000 Ada
INT8		105.3 TOPS
FP32	26.7 TFLOPS	13.2 TFLOPS	2x higher on RTX 4000 Ada
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	130 W	130 W	Identical
Released	Q3 2023	Q3 2025	2 years newer on RTX 5050
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: RTX 4000 Ada datasheet and RTX 5050 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 4000 Ada	RTX 5050
Sesterce France	$0.87 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$1.13 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Akamai Cloud USA	$0.52 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
DigitalOcean USA	$0.76 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	On request Reserved	--
OpenRelay USA	$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand