A40 vs RTX 3090: specs and rental price compared
A40 from $0.075/GPU/hr across 1 provider; RTX 3090 from $0.160/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The A40 is 53% cheaper at the entry rate.
Specs side by side
Price by provider
A40 vs RTX 3090: common questions
Is the A40 or the RTX 3090 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A40 starts at $0.075/GPU/hr (median $0.075/GPU/hr across 1 provider) and the RTX 3090 starts at $0.160/GPU/hr (median $0.224/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The A40 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 53%.
What is the difference between the A40 and the RTX 3090?
The A40 has 2 GB of VRAM against the RTX 3090's 24 GB; both are Ampere parts; both run BF16, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the A40 lists from $0.075/GPU/hr and the RTX 3090 from $0.160/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A40 and the RTX 3090?
1 provider list the A40 (Vultr) and 3 list the RTX 3090 (Simplepod, Akash and Vast.ai), across 1 and 3 regions respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A40 vs the RTX 3090?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $75 on the A40 and $160 on the RTX 3090 — a difference of $85 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How this comparison is calculated
Every price is normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using the same pipeline as every other pricing surface on Aquanode, and only the cheapest qualifying offer per provider is shown. A dash means that provider does not currently list that GPU.
Architecture, compute capability and supported precisions come from each vendor's published datasheet for that generation — not from the marketplace feed. This page regenerates at most once per hour.
