A consumer GPU against a workstation card, one Ada Lovelace and one Turing: 24 GB GDDR6X against 24 GB GDDR6, 50% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 4090, and NVLink 100 GB/s on the Quadro RTX 6000 where the RTX 4090 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.01 TB/s
- From
- $0.23 /GPU/hr
- 18 providers
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 672 GB/s
- From
- $1.50 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 4090 | Quadro RTX 6000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.23 | $1.50 | 6.4x more expensive on Quadro RTX 6000 |
| Spot | $0.16 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.27 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.44 | $1.50 | 3.4x more expensive on Quadro RTX 6000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 4090 vs Quadro RTX 6000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 4090 | Quadro RTX 6000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6X | 24 GB GDDR6 | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 1,010 GB/s | 672 GB/s | 1.5x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 384-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 330.3 TFLOPS | Not supported | RTX 4090 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 165.2 TFLOPS | 130.5 TFLOPS | 1.3x higher on RTX 4090 |
| INT8 | 660.6 TOPS | 261 TOPS | 2.5x higher on RTX 4090 |
| FP32 | 82.6 TFLOPS | 16.3 TFLOPS | 5.1x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 100 GB/s | NVLink on Quadro RTX 6000 only |
| Board power | 450 W | 295 W | 1.5x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Released | Q4 2022 | Q3 2018 | 4 years newer on RTX 4090 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 4090 datasheet and Quadro RTX 6000 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 | Quadro RTX 6000 /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 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.66 | -- |
Akamai Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $1.50 |
Lambda Labs
|
-- | On-Demand $0.69 |
18 providers list the RTX 4090 and 2 the Quadro RTX 6000. Every listing is on the RTX 4090 page and the Quadro RTX 6000 page.
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 4090 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000 on Sept. 7, 2026.