A consumer GPU against a data center card, one Blackwell and one Turing: 32 GB GDDR7 against 16 GB GDDR6 and 6x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 5090.
At a glance
Updated 3 minutes ago- Memory
- 32 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.79 TB/s
- From
- $0.35 /GPU/hr
- 20 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 300 GB/s
- From
- $0.15 /GPU/hr
- 11 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 5090 | T4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.35 | $0.15 | 2.4x more expensive on RTX 5090 |
| Spot | $0.21 | $0.06 | 3.8x more expensive on RTX 5090 |
| Reserved | $0.21 | $0.20 | 6% cheaper on T4 |
| Median | $0.63 | $0.64 | Within 5% |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 5090 vs T4 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
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 listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX 5090 /GPU/hr | T4 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.43 | On-Demand $0.15 |
HyperAI
|
On-Demand $0.35 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.38 | -- |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.45 | -- |
GPUhub
|
On-Demand $0.46 | -- |
Lium
|
On-Demand $0.50 | -- |
Nova Cloud
|
On-Demand $0.63 | -- |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.69 | -- |
Zenlayer
|
-- | On-Demand $0.56 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.20 |
Hugging Face
|
-- | On-Demand $0.40 |
Google Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.42 |
AWS
|
-- | On-Demand $0.53 |
Azure
|
-- | On-Demand $0.53 |
Cerebrium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.59 |
20 providers list the RTX 5090 and 11 the T4. Every listing is on the RTX 5090 page and the T4 page.
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 5090 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia T4 on Sept. 7, 2026.