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 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.01 TB/s
- From
- $0.23 /GPU/hr
- 17 providers
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.86 /GPU/hr
- 10 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 4090 | RTX 6000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.23 | $0.86 | 3.7x more expensive on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Spot | $0.16 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.27 | $1.04 | 3.8x more expensive on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Median | $0.44 | $1.23 | 2.8x more expensive on RTX 6000 Ada |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 4090 vs RTX 6000 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 4090 | RTX 6000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6X | 48 GB GDDR6 | 2x more on RTX 6000 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 | 728.5 TFLOPS | 2.2x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| FP16 / BF16 | 165.2 TFLOPS | 364.2 TFLOPS | 2.2x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| INT8 | 660.6 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 82.6 TFLOPS | 91.1 TFLOPS | 1.1x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 450 W | 300 W | 1.5x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Released | Q4 2022 | Q4 2022 | |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 4090 datasheet and RTX 6000 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 6000 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Novita
|
On-Demand $0.33 | On-Demand $0.77 |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.34 | Reservation on request |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
On-Demand $0.23 | -- |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.30 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.34 | -- |
Packet·ai
|
On-Demand $0.39 | -- |
Lium
|
On-Demand $0.58 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $4.00 | -- |
TensorDock
|
-- | On-Demand $0.86 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $1.23 |
DigitalOcean
|
-- | On-Demand $1.57 |
AceCloud
|
-- | Reserved (12mo) $1.04 |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $0.66 |
Massed Compute
|
-- | On-Demand $0.79 |
17 providers list the RTX 4090 and 10 the RTX 6000 Ada. Every listing is on the RTX 4090 page and the RTX 6000 Ada page.
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 4090 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.