A consumer GPU against a workstation card on the Ada Lovelace architecture: 24 GB GDDR6X against 48 GB GDDR6 and 5% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 4090.
At a glance
Updated 4 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.01 TB/s
- From
- $0.23 /GPU/hr
- 20 providers
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.74 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 4090 | RTX 5880 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.23 | $0.74 | 3.1x more expensive on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Spot | $0.12 | $0.30 | 2.4x more expensive on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Reserved | $0.27 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.45 | $0.74 | 39% cheaper 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 5880 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 4090 | RTX 5880 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6X | 48 GB GDDR6 | 2x more on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 1,010 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 1.1x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 384-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 330.3 TFLOPS | 554.2 TFLOPS | 1.7x higher on RTX 5880 Ada |
| FP16 / BF16 | 165.2 TFLOPS | 277.1 TFLOPS | 1.7x higher on RTX 5880 Ada |
| INT8 | 660.6 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 82.6 TFLOPS | 69.3 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 450 W | 285 W | 1.6x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Released | Q4 2022 | Q1 2024 | 15 months newer on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 4090 datasheet and RTX 5880 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 5880 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.32 | On-Demand $0.74 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
On-Demand $0.23 | -- |
Lium
|
On-Demand $0.30 | -- |
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 | -- |
20 providers list the RTX 4090 and 1 the RTX 5880 Ada. Every listing is on the RTX 4090 page and the RTX 5880 Ada page.
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 4090 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.