RTX 5090 vs RTX 6000 Ada: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 5090 from $0.517/GPU/hr across 4 providers; RTX 6000 Ada from $0.685/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The RTX 5090 is 24% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 5090 vs RTX 6000 Ada: common questions
Is the RTX 5090 or the RTX 6000 Ada cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 5090 starts at $0.517/GPU/hr (median $0.990/GPU/hr across 4 providers) and the RTX 6000 Ada starts at $0.685/GPU/hr (median $0.796/GPU/hr across 4 providers). 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 6000 Ada?
The RTX 5090 has 32 GB of VRAM against the RTX 6000 Ada's 48 GB; the RTX 5090 is a Blackwell part and the RTX 6000 Ada is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 12.0 vs 8.9); both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the RTX 5090 lists from $0.517/GPU/hr and the RTX 6000 Ada from $0.685/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 5090 and the RTX 6000 Ada?
4 providers list the RTX 5090 (Vast.ai, Akash, RunPod and SimplePod) and 4 list the RTX 6000 Ada (Vast.ai, RunPod, Massed Compute and Verda), across 4 and 4 regions respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai and RunPod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 5090 vs the RTX 6000 Ada?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $517 on the RTX 5090 and $685 on the RTX 6000 Ada, a difference of $168 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.
