RTX 5090 vs RTX A6000: 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 A6000 from $0.330/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The RTX A6000 is 36% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 5090 vs RTX A6000: common questions
Is the RTX 5090 or the RTX A6000 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 A6000 starts at $0.330/GPU/hr (median $0.530/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The RTX A6000 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 36%.
What is the difference between the RTX 5090 and the RTX A6000?
The RTX 5090 has 32 GB of VRAM against the RTX A6000's 48 GB; the RTX 5090 is a Blackwell part and the RTX A6000 is Ampere (compute capability 12.0 vs 8.6); only the RTX 5090 supports FP8 compute. On price, the RTX 5090 lists from $0.517/GPU/hr and the RTX A6000 from $0.330/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 5090 and the RTX A6000?
4 providers list the RTX 5090 (Vast.ai, Akash, RunPod and SimplePod) and 4 list the RTX A6000 (RunPod, Massed Compute, HyperStack and Vast.ai), 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 A6000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $517 on the RTX 5090 and $330 on the RTX A6000, a difference of $187 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.
