Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti vs Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada

Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti rents for 1.7x less per hour, but Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada buys 1.9x more FP16 compute per dollar — the cheaper card is the dearer one per unit of work.

Prices and stock checked 2 hours ago

Datasheet, side by side

Memory per GPU1.3x on the Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Memory bandwidth1.8x on the Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti
FP16 / BF16 dense3.3x on the Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Board power1.8x on the Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada

Figures are the vendors' own published numbers, dense rates without sparsity. A bar is drawn only where both cards publish the same figure.

Price, side by side

Metric Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Cheapest listed $0.16 $0.27
Median across providers $0.22 $0.34
Most expensive listed $0.27 $0.49
Providers 2 3
Reporting stock 1 2
One month, 730 hours $117 $197

Frequently asked questions

Is the Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti or the Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada cheaper to rent?

The Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti starts at $0.16 per GPU hour and the Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada at $0.27. Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti rents for 1.7x less per hour, but Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada buys 1.9x more FP16 compute per dollar — the cheaper card is the dearer one per unit of work.

Which one can I actually get right now?

Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti: 1 of 2 providers report stock, cheapest in stock $0.27 at Runpod. Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada: 2 of 3 providers report stock, cheapest in stock $0.34 at Vast.ai.

What does a month on each card cost?

Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti: $117 for 730 hours at its cheapest listed rate. Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada: $197 for 730 hours at its cheapest listed rate.