Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Ada Lovelace and one Blackwell: 24 GB GDDR6X against 8 GB GDDR7 and 2.3x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 4090.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.01 TB/s
- From
- $0.23 /GPU/hr
- 18 providers
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.14 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 4090 | RTX 5060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.23 | $0.14 | 40% cheaper on RTX 5060 |
| Spot | $0.16 | $0.07 | 2.5x more expensive on RTX 4090 |
| Reserved | $0.27 | $0.12 | 2.3x more expensive on RTX 4090 |
| Median | $0.44 | $0.15 | 3x more expensive on RTX 4090 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 4090 vs RTX 5060 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 4090 | RTX 5060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6X | 8 GB GDDR7 | 3x more on RTX 4090 |
| Bandwidth | 1,010 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 2.3x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 128-bit | 3x wider on RTX 4090 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 307 TFLOPS | RTX 5060 only |
| FP8 | 330.3 TFLOPS | 76.8 TFLOPS | 4.3x higher on RTX 4090 |
| FP16 / BF16 | 165.2 TFLOPS | 38.4 TFLOPS | 4.3x higher on RTX 4090 |
| INT8 | 660.6 TOPS | 153.6 TOPS | 4.3x higher on RTX 4090 |
| FP32 | 82.6 TFLOPS | 19.2 TFLOPS | 4.3x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 450 W | 145 W | 3.1x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Released | Q4 2022 | Q2 2025 | 3 years newer on RTX 5060 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 4090 datasheet and RTX 5060 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 5060 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Theta EdgeCloud
|
On-Demand $0.23 | On-Demand $0.16 |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.30 | On-Demand $0.14 |
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 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.66 | -- |
Database Mart
|
-- | Reserved (24mo) $0.12 |
18 providers list the RTX 4090 and 3 the RTX 5060. Every listing is on the RTX 4090 page and the RTX 5060 page.
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 4090 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5060 on Sept. 7, 2026.