RTX 3080 vs RTX 4090: specs and rental price compared
RTX 3080 from $0.123/GPU/hr across 1 provider; RTX 4090 from $0.336/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The RTX 3080 is 63% cheaper at the entry rate.
Specs side by side
Price by provider
RTX 3080 vs RTX 4090: common questions
Is the RTX 3080 or the RTX 4090 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 3080 starts at $0.123/GPU/hr (median $0.163/GPU/hr across 1 provider) and the RTX 4090 starts at $0.336/GPU/hr (median $0.531/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The RTX 3080 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 63%.
What is the difference between the RTX 3080 and the RTX 4090?
The RTX 3080 has 10 GB of VRAM against the RTX 4090's 24 GB; the RTX 3080 is an Ampere part and the RTX 4090 is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 8.6 vs 8.9); only the RTX 4090 supports FP8 compute. On price, the RTX 3080 lists from $0.123/GPU/hr and the RTX 4090 from $0.336/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 3080 and the RTX 4090?
1 provider list the RTX 3080 (Vast.ai) and 3 list the RTX 4090 (Akash, Simplepod and Vast.ai), across 1 and 3 regions respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 3080 vs the RTX 4090?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $123 on the RTX 3080 and $336 on the RTX 4090 — a difference of $213 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.
