RTX 3090 vs RTX 6000 Ada: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 3090 from $0.208/GPU/hr across 3 providers; RTX 6000 Ada from $0.584/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The RTX 3090 is 64% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 3090 vs RTX 6000 Ada: common questions
Is the RTX 3090 or the RTX 6000 Ada cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 3090 starts at $0.208/GPU/hr (median $0.317/GPU/hr across 3 providers) and the RTX 6000 Ada starts at $0.584/GPU/hr (median $0.790/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The RTX 3090 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 64%.
What is the difference between the RTX 3090 and the RTX 6000 Ada?
The RTX 3090 has 24 GB of VRAM against the RTX 6000 Ada's 48 GB; the RTX 3090 is an Ampere part and the RTX 6000 Ada is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 8.6 vs 8.9); only the RTX 6000 Ada supports FP8 compute. On price, the RTX 3090 lists from $0.208/GPU/hr and the RTX 6000 Ada from $0.584/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 3090 and the RTX 6000 Ada?
3 providers list the RTX 3090 (Vast.ai, RunPod and Akash) and 4 list the RTX 6000 Ada (Vast.ai, RunPod, Massed Compute and Verda), across 3 and 4 regions respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai and RunPod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 3090 vs the RTX 6000 Ada?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $208 on the RTX 3090 and $584 on the RTX 6000 Ada, a difference of $376 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.
