RTX 4080 vs RTX 5090: specs and rental price compared
RTX 4080 from $0.158/GPU/hr across 2 providers; RTX 5090 from $0.158/GPU/hr across 3 providers.
Specs side by side
Price by provider
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 $0.368/GPU/hr across 2 providers) and the RTX 5090 starts at $0.158/GPU/hr (median $0.663/GPU/hr across 3 providers). Both models currently start at the same rate.
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 $0.158/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 4080 and the RTX 5090?
2 providers list the RTX 4080 (Akash and Vast.ai) and 3 list the RTX 5090 (Akash, Vast.ai and Simplepod), across 2 and 3 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 $158 on the RTX 5090 — identical spend. 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.
