RTX 5080 vs RTX 5090: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 5080 from $0.390/GPU/hr across 2 providers; RTX 5090 from $0.567/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The RTX 5080 is 31% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 5080 vs RTX 5090: common questions
Is the RTX 5080 or the RTX 5090 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 5080 starts at $0.390/GPU/hr (median $0.390/GPU/hr across 2 providers) and the RTX 5090 starts at $0.567/GPU/hr (median $0.990/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The RTX 5080 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 31%.
What is the difference between the RTX 5080 and the RTX 5090?
The RTX 5080 has 16 GB of VRAM against the RTX 5090's 32 GB; both are Blackwell parts; both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the RTX 5080 lists from $0.390/GPU/hr and the RTX 5090 from $0.567/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 5080 and the RTX 5090?
2 providers list the RTX 5080 (RunPod and Vast.ai) and 4 list the RTX 5090 (Vast.ai, Akash, RunPod and SimplePod), across 2 and 4 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod and Vast.ai.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 5080 vs the RTX 5090?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $390 on the RTX 5080 and $567 on the RTX 5090, a difference of $177 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.
