RTX 5090 vs V100: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 5090 from $0.550/GPU/hr across 4 providers; V100 from $0.170/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The V100 is 69% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 5090 vs V100: common questions
Is the RTX 5090 or the V100 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 5090 starts at $0.550/GPU/hr (median $0.990/GPU/hr across 4 providers) and the V100 starts at $0.170/GPU/hr (median $0.190/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The V100 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 69%.
What is the difference between the RTX 5090 and the V100?
The RTX 5090 has 32 GB of VRAM against the V100's 16 GB; the RTX 5090 is a Blackwell part and the V100 is Volta (compute capability 12.0 vs 7.0); only the RTX 5090 supports BF16, FP8, INT4 compute. On price, the RTX 5090 lists from $0.550/GPU/hr and the V100 from $0.170/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 5090 and the V100?
4 providers list the RTX 5090 (Vast.ai, Akash, RunPod and SimplePod) and 3 list the V100 (SimplePod, RunPod and Akash), across 4 and 3 regions respectively. Both are available from Akash, RunPod and SimplePod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 5090 vs the V100?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $550 on the RTX 5090 and $170 on the V100, a difference of $380 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.
