RTX 5090 vs RTX A6000: specs and rental price compared
RTX 5090 from $0.158/GPU/hr across 3 providers; RTX A6000 from $0.500/GPU/hr across 2 providers. The RTX 5090 is 69% cheaper at the entry rate.
Specs side by side
Price by provider
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 $0.158/GPU/hr (median $0.663/GPU/hr across 3 providers) and the RTX A6000 starts at $0.500/GPU/hr (median $0.570/GPU/hr across 2 providers). The RTX 5090 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 69%.
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 $0.158/GPU/hr and the RTX A6000 from $0.500/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 5090 and the RTX A6000?
3 providers list the RTX 5090 (Akash, Vast.ai and Simplepod) and 2 list the RTX A6000 (Massed Compute and Vast.ai), across 3 and 2 regions respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai.
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 $158 on the RTX 5090 and $500 on the RTX A6000 — a difference of $343 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.
