A consumer GPU against a workstation card on the Ada Lovelace architecture: 24 GB GDDR6X against 24 GB GDDR6 and 2.3x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 4090.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.01 TB/s
- From
- $0.23 /GPU/hr
- 17 providers
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 432 GB/s
- From
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Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 4090 | RTX 4500 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.23 | -- | |
| Spot | $0.16 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.27 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.44 | -- |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 4090 vs RTX 4500 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 4090 | RTX 4500 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6X | 24 GB GDDR6 | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 1,010 GB/s | 432 GB/s | 2.3x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 192-bit | 2x wider on RTX 4090 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 330.3 TFLOPS | 317 TFLOPS | Within 5% |
| FP16 / BF16 | 165.2 TFLOPS | 158.5 TFLOPS | Within 5% |
| INT8 | 660.6 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 82.6 TFLOPS | 39.6 TFLOPS | 2.1x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 450 W | 210 W | 2.1x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Released | Q4 2022 | Q3 2023 | 10 months newer on RTX 4500 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 4090 datasheet and RTX 4500 Ada datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX 4090 /GPU/hr | RTX 4500 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Theta EdgeCloud
|
On-Demand $0.23 | -- |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.30 | -- |
Novita
|
On-Demand $0.33 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.34 | -- |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.34 | -- |
Packet·ai
|
On-Demand $0.39 | -- |
Lium
|
On-Demand $0.58 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $4.00 | -- |
17 providers list the RTX 4090 and 0 the RTX 4500 Ada. Every listing is on the RTX 4090 page and the RTX 4500 Ada page.
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 4090 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.