RTX 3090 vs RTX 4080 Super: specs and rental price compared

RTX 3090 from $0.160/GPU/hr across 3 providers; RTX 4080 Super from $0.185/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The RTX 3090 is 14% cheaper at the entry rate.

RTX 3090
$0.160/hr
Lowest / GPU
$0.224/hr
Median / GPU
24 GB
VRAM
Ampere
Architecture
RTX 4080 Super
$0.185/hr
Lowest / GPU
$0.362/hr
Median / GPU
16 GB
VRAM
Ada Lovelace
Architecture

Specs side by side

Spec
RTX 3090
RTX 4080 Super
VRAM
24 GB
16 GB
Architecture
Ampere
Ada Lovelace
Compute capability
8.6
8.9
Precisions in hardware
FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4
FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4
Interconnect
PCIe
PCIe
Lowest $/GPU/hr
$0.160
$0.185
Median $/GPU/hr
$0.224
$0.362
Providers
3
1
Regions
3
1

Price by provider

Provider
RTX 3090 $/GPU/hr
RTX 4080 Super $/GPU/hr
Vast.ai
$0.197
$0.185
Simplepod
$0.160
Akash
$0.168

RTX 3090 vs RTX 4080 Super: common questions

Is the RTX 3090 or the RTX 4080 Super cheaper to rent?

On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 3090 starts at $0.160/GPU/hr (median $0.224/GPU/hr across 3 providers) and the RTX 4080 Super starts at $0.185/GPU/hr (median $0.362/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The RTX 3090 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 14%.

What is the difference between the RTX 3090 and the RTX 4080 Super?

The RTX 3090 has 24 GB of VRAM against the RTX 4080 Super's 16 GB; the RTX 3090 is an Ampere part and the RTX 4080 Super is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 8.6 vs 8.9); only the RTX 4080 Super supports FP8 compute. On price, the RTX 3090 lists from $0.160/GPU/hr and the RTX 4080 Super from $0.185/GPU/hr.

Which cloud providers offer the RTX 3090 and the RTX 4080 Super?

3 providers list the RTX 3090 (Simplepod, Akash and Vast.ai) and 1 list the RTX 4080 Super (Vast.ai), across 3 and 1 region respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai.

How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 3090 vs the RTX 4080 Super?

At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $160 on the RTX 3090 and $185 on the RTX 4080 Super — a difference of $25 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.

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