A workstation GPU against a consumer card, one Ada Lovelace and one Blackwell: 20 GB GDDR6 against 32 GB GDDR7 and 5x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 5090.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 20 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- From
- $0.52 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
- Memory
- 32 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.79 TB/s
- From
- $0.35 /GPU/hr
- 20 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 4000 Ada | RTX 5090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.52 | $0.35 | 33% cheaper on RTX 5090 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.20 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.21 | |
| Median | $0.75 | $0.68 | 10% cheaper on RTX 5090 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 4000 Ada vs RTX 5090 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 4000 Ada | RTX 5090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 20 GB GDDR6 | 32 GB GDDR7 | 1.6x more on RTX 5090 |
| Bandwidth | 360 GB/s | 1,792 GB/s | 5x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Bus width | 160-bit | 512-bit | 3.2x wider on RTX 5090 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 1,676 TFLOPS | RTX 5090 only |
| FP8 | 213.8 TFLOPS | 419 TFLOPS | 2x higher on RTX 5090 |
| FP16 / BF16 | 106.9 TFLOPS | 209.5 TFLOPS | 2x higher on RTX 5090 |
| INT8 | 838 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 26.7 TFLOPS | 104.8 TFLOPS | 3.9x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 130 W | 575 W | 4.4x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Released | Q3 2023 | Q1 2025 | 2 years newer on RTX 5090 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 4000 Ada datasheet and RTX 5090 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX 4000 Ada /GPU/hr | RTX 5090 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Akamai Cloud
|
On-Demand $0.52 | -- |
DigitalOcean
|
On-Demand $0.76 | -- |
Runpod
|
Reservation on request | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.87 | -- |
HyperAI
|
-- | On-Demand $0.35 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.45 |
GPUhub
|
-- | On-Demand $0.46 |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.50 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.51 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.52 |
Nova Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.63 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.82 |
4 providers list the RTX 4000 Ada and 20 the RTX 5090. Every listing is on the RTX 4000 Ada page and the RTX 5090 page.
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5090 on Sept. 7, 2026.