Nvidia RTX 5090 vs Nvidia T4

The RTX 5090 is newer, with 2x the memory and 6x the bandwidth. The two typically cost about the same.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on RTX 5090

RTX 5090: 32 GB

T4: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

6x higher on RTX 5090

RTX 5090: 1,792 GB/s

T4: 300 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

58% cheaper on T4

RTX 5090: $0.35 /GPU/hr

T4: $0.15 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	RTX 5090	T4	Difference
On-demand	$0.65 /GPU/hr from $0.35	$0.64 /GPU/hr from $0.15	Within 5%
Reserved	$0.59 /GPU/hr from $0.21 (1 mo)	$0.43 /GPU/hr from $0.20 (36 mo)	28% cheaper on T4
Spot	$0.43 /GPU/hr from $0.25	$0.26 /GPU/hr from $0.06	40% cheaper on T4

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

RTX 5090 vs T4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 5090	T4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	32 GB GDDR7	16 GB GDDR6	2x more on RTX 5090
Bandwidth	1,792 GB/s	300 GB/s	6x higher on RTX 5090
Bus width	512-bit	256-bit	2x wider on RTX 5090
Compute · dense
FP4	1,676 TFLOPS	Not supported	RTX 5090 only
FP8	419 TFLOPS	Not supported	RTX 5090 only
FP16 / BF16	209.5 TFLOPS	65 TFLOPS	3.2x higher on RTX 5090
INT8	838 TOPS	130 TOPS	6.4x higher on RTX 5090
FP32	104.8 TFLOPS	8.1 TFLOPS	13x higher on RTX 5090
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	575 W	70 W	8.2x higher on RTX 5090
Released	Q1 2025	Q3 2018	6 years newer on RTX 5090
Precision
Supported formats	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: RTX 5090 datasheet and T4 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	RTX 5090	T4
Vast.ai USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand
HyperAI Hong Kong	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPUhub Singapore	$0.46 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Nova Cloud Canada	$0.66 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Runpod USA	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lium Distributed	$0.75 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Zenlayer USA	--	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand
Hugging Face USA	--	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand
Google Cloud USA	--	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand
AWS USA	--	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand
Azure USA	--	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand
Cerebrium USA	--	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand