RTX 4080 vs RTX 5090: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 4080 from $0.158/GPU/hr across 2 providers; RTX 5090 from $0.474/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The RTX 4080 is 67% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 4080 vs RTX 5090: common questions
Is the RTX 4080 or the RTX 5090 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 4080 starts at $0.158/GPU/hr (median $0.321/GPU/hr across 2 providers) and the RTX 5090 starts at $0.474/GPU/hr (median $0.668/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The RTX 4080 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 67%.
What is the difference between the RTX 4080 and the RTX 5090?
The RTX 4080 has 16 GB of VRAM against the RTX 5090's 32 GB; the RTX 4080 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 4080 lists from $0.158/GPU/hr and the RTX 5090 from $0.474/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 4080 and the RTX 5090?
2 providers list the RTX 4080 (Akash and Vast.ai) and 4 list the RTX 5090 (Vast.ai, SimplePod, Akash and RunPod), across 2 and 4 regions respectively. Both are available from Akash and Vast.ai.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 4080 vs the RTX 5090?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $158 on the RTX 4080 and $474 on the RTX 5090 — a difference of $316 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.
