RTX 5090 vs RTX PRO 4500 SE: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the RTX 5090 when you want the lower hourly rate and the specs are otherwise a wash. Choose the RTX PRO 4500 SE when RTX PRO 4500 SE pricing or availability works better where you're deploying.
Both the RTX 5090 and the RTX PRO 4500 SE ship with 32 GB of VRAM.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 5090 from $0.598/GPU/hr; RTX PRO 4500 SE from $0.792/GPU/hr. The RTX 5090 is 24% cheaper at the entry rate.
RTX 5090
Good for inference and light fine-tuning workloads
RTX PRO 4500 SE
Good for inference and light fine-tuning workloads
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Specs side by side
| Spec | RTX 5090 | RTX PRO 4500 SE |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 32 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,792 GB/s | – |
| Architecture | Blackwell | Blackwell |
| Compute capability | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 |
| Max board power (TDP) | 575W | – |
| Form factor | PCIe 5.0 x16 | – |
| Regions | 4 | 1 |
On-demand price
| Rate | RTX 5090 | RTX PRO 4500 SE |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $1.09/GPU/hr | $0.792/GPU/hr |
Which is better for AI: RTX 5090 or RTX PRO 4500 SE?
Choose the RTX 5090 when you want the lower hourly rate and the specs are otherwise a wash. Choose the RTX PRO 4500 SE when RTX PRO 4500 SE pricing or availability works better where you're deploying.
RTX 5090 vs RTX PRO 4500 SE: common questions
Is the RTX 5090 or the RTX PRO 4500 SE better for AI?
Short answer: choose the RTX 5090 when you want the lower hourly rate and the specs are otherwise a wash. Choose the RTX PRO 4500 SE when RTX PRO 4500 SE pricing or availability works better where you're deploying.
Is the RTX 5090 or the RTX PRO 4500 SE cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 5090 starts at $0.598/GPU/hr (median $0.912/GPU/hr) and the RTX PRO 4500 SE starts at $0.792/GPU/hr (median $0.792/GPU/hr). The RTX 5090 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 24%.
What is the difference between the RTX 5090 and the RTX PRO 4500 SE?
Both cards report 32 GB of VRAM; both are Blackwell parts; both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the RTX 5090 lists from $0.598/GPU/hr and the RTX PRO 4500 SE from $0.792/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the RTX 5090 and the RTX PRO 4500 SE?
The RTX 5090 is listed in 4 regions and the RTX PRO 4500 SE in 1 region right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 5090 vs the RTX PRO 4500 SE?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $598 on the RTX 5090 and $792 on the RTX PRO 4500 SE, a difference of $194 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the RTX 5090 have compared to the RTX PRO 4500 SE?
Both the RTX 5090 and the RTX PRO 4500 SE ship with 32 GB of VRAM.
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.
Memory bandwidth, tensor TFLOPS, NVLink/interconnect and max board power are the same verified-from-datasheet figures shown on each model's own RTX 5090 page and RTX PRO 4500 SE page, which link the primary vendor source for that model. A dash here means Aquanode hasn't verified that figure from a primary source yet, never a guess.
Go further
Check what fits in each card's memory with the RTX 5090 VRAM calculator and the RTX PRO 4500 SE VRAM calculator, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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