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RTX 3090 vs RTX 3090 Ti
Specs from the chip makers' datasheets; prices from the live Compute Cafe panel, refreshed hourly. Every rate is an on-demand published price with a source receipt.
CHEAPEST RTX 3090
$0.080/hr
SpotGPUs · median $0.45 · 26 providers
CHEAPEST RTX 3090 TI
$0.090/hr
SpotGPUs · median $0.27 · 7 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
RTX 3090
live panel, 2026-09-27
| RTX 3090 | RTX 3090 TI | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| ARCHITECTURE | Ampere | Ampere |
| LAUNCHED | 2020 | 2022 |
| MEMORY | 24 GB GDDR6X | 24 GB GDDR6X |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 936 GB/s | 1,008 GB/s |
| TENSOR COMPUTE | 142 TFLOPS FP16 tensor dense (285 sparse) | 40 TFLOPS FP32 class (10,752 CUDA cores, third-gen Tensor Cores) |
| POWER DRAW | 350 W | 450 W |
| INTERCONNECT | PCIe 4.0 x16 (NVLink bridge on pairs) | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
HOW TO CHOOSE
RTX 3090 Ti vs RTX 3090
Same 24 GB, but the Ti pushes bandwidth from 936 to 1,008 GB/s and clocks up at 450 W versus 350 W. Decode-heavy inference gains a few percent; the 3090 usually wins on price per hour. Buy the Ti only when the premium is small.
Workload fit
RTX 3090: budget fine-tuning, small-model inference. RTX 3090 Ti: budget llm inference and fine-tuning, rendering and content creation, power-constrained builds.
RTX 3090 VS RTX 3090 TI - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, RTX 3090 or RTX 3090 Ti?
By today's published on-demand rates: RTX 3090 starts at $0.080/GPU/hr (median $0.45, 26 providers) and RTX 3090 Ti starts at $0.090/GPU/hr (median $0.27, 7 providers). The cheapest live listing is the RTX 3090 at SpotGPUs. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
RTX 3090 or RTX 3090 Ti - which should I rent?
RTX 3090: The RTX 3090 remains the budget multi-GPU favorite: 24 GB per card, and uniquely among consumer cards its generation supports NVLink bridge pairs - 48 GB linked for under a dollar an hour on parts of the panel. RTX 3090 Ti: The RTX 3090 Ti was the final Ampere flagship: the same 24 GB as the 3090 but at 1,008 GB/s - the first card to cross 1 TB/s - with a 450 W appetite. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.
Where can I rent RTX 3090 and RTX 3090 Ti?
26 providers publish RTX 3090 rates and 7 publish RTX 3090 Ti rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.
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