RTX 5080 vs RTX 5090: specs and rental price compared
RTX 5080 from $0.274/GPU/hr across 1 provider; RTX 5090 from $0.158/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The RTX 5090 is 43% 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 $0.274/GPU/hr (median $0.376/GPU/hr across 1 provider) and the RTX 5090 starts at $0.158/GPU/hr (median $0.663/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The RTX 5090 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 43%.
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 $0.274/GPU/hr and the RTX 5090 from $0.158/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 5080 and the RTX 5090?
1 provider list the RTX 5080 (Vast.ai) and 3 list the RTX 5090 (Akash, Vast.ai and Simplepod), across 1 and 3 regions respectively. Both are available from 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 $274 on the RTX 5080 and $158 on the RTX 5090 — a difference of $117 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.
