RTX 4070 vs RTX 5090: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 4070 from $0.080/GPU/hr across 1 provider; RTX 5090 from $0.550/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The RTX 4070 is 85% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 4070 vs RTX 5090: common questions
Is the RTX 4070 or the RTX 5090 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 4070 starts at $0.080/GPU/hr (median $0.080/GPU/hr across 1 provider) and the RTX 5090 starts at $0.550/GPU/hr (median $0.676/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The RTX 4070 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 85%.
What is the difference between the RTX 4070 and the RTX 5090?
The RTX 4070 has 12 GB of VRAM against the RTX 5090's 32 GB; the RTX 4070 is an Ada Lovelace part and the RTX 5090 is Blackwell (compute capability 8.9 vs 12.0); both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the RTX 4070 lists from $0.080/GPU/hr and the RTX 5090 from $0.550/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 4070 and the RTX 5090?
1 provider list the RTX 4070 (SimplePod) and 3 list the RTX 5090 (SimplePod, Akash and RunPod), across 1 and 3 regions respectively. Both are available from SimplePod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 4070 vs the RTX 5090?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $80 on the RTX 4070 and $550 on the RTX 5090, a difference of $470 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.
