RTX 4090 vs RTX 5080: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 4090 from $0.340/GPU/hr across 4 providers; RTX 5080 from $0.390/GPU/hr across 2 providers. The RTX 4090 is 13% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 4090 vs RTX 5080: common questions
Is the RTX 4090 or the RTX 5080 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 4090 starts at $0.340/GPU/hr (median $0.740/GPU/hr across 4 providers) and the RTX 5080 starts at $0.390/GPU/hr (median $0.390/GPU/hr across 2 providers). The RTX 4090 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 13%.
What is the difference between the RTX 4090 and the RTX 5080?
The RTX 4090 has 24 GB of VRAM against the RTX 5080's 16 GB; the RTX 4090 is an Ada Lovelace part and the RTX 5080 is Blackwell (compute capability 8.9 vs 12.0); both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the RTX 4090 lists from $0.340/GPU/hr and the RTX 5080 from $0.390/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 4090 and the RTX 5080?
4 providers list the RTX 4090 (RunPod, SimplePod, Akash and Vast.ai) and 2 list the RTX 5080 (RunPod and Vast.ai), across 4 and 2 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod and Vast.ai.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 4090 vs the RTX 5080?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $340 on the RTX 4090 and $390 on the RTX 5080, a difference of $50 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.
