RTX 3080 vs RTX 5090: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 3080 from $0.170/GPU/hr across 1 provider; RTX 5090 from $0.601/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The RTX 3080 is 72% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 3080 vs RTX 5090: common questions
Is the RTX 3080 or the RTX 5090 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 3080 starts at $0.170/GPU/hr (median $0.180/GPU/hr across 1 provider) and the RTX 5090 starts at $0.601/GPU/hr (median $1.00/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The RTX 3080 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 72%.
What is the difference between the RTX 3080 and the RTX 5090?
The RTX 3080 has 12 GB of VRAM against the RTX 5090's 32 GB; the RTX 3080 is an Ampere part and the RTX 5090 is Blackwell (compute capability 8.6 vs 12.0); only the RTX 5090 supports FP8 compute. On price, the RTX 3080 lists from $0.170/GPU/hr and the RTX 5090 from $0.601/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 3080 and the RTX 5090?
1 provider list the RTX 3080 (RunPod) and 3 list the RTX 5090 (Vast.ai, Akash and RunPod), across 1 and 3 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 3080 vs the RTX 5090?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $170 on the RTX 3080 and $601 on the RTX 5090, a difference of $431 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.
