DGX A100 vs RTX 5090: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. DGX A100 from $1.24/GPU/hr across 1 provider; RTX 5090 from $0.521/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The RTX 5090 is 58% cheaper at the entry rate.
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DGX A100 vs RTX 5090: common questions
Is the DGX A100 or the RTX 5090 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the DGX A100 starts at $1.24/GPU/hr (median $1.38/GPU/hr across 1 provider) and the RTX 5090 starts at $0.521/GPU/hr (median $0.917/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The RTX 5090 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 58%.
What is the difference between the DGX A100 and the RTX 5090?
The DGX A100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX 5090's 32 GB; the DGX A100 is an Ampere part and the RTX 5090 is Blackwell (compute capability 8.0 vs 12.0); only the RTX 5090 supports FP8 compute. On price, the DGX A100 lists from $1.24/GPU/hr and the RTX 5090 from $0.521/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the DGX A100 and the RTX 5090?
1 provider list the DGX A100 (Massed Compute) and 4 list the RTX 5090 (Vast.ai, Akash, RunPod and SimplePod), across 1 and 4 regions respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the DGX A100 vs the RTX 5090?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $1,243 on the DGX A100 and $521 on the RTX 5090, a difference of $722 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.
