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RTX 3090 vs RTX A5000
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 A5000
$0.090/hr
Salad · median $0.44 · 11 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
RTX 3090
live panel, 2026-09-27
| RTX 3090 | RTX A5000 | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| ARCHITECTURE | Ampere | Ampere |
| LAUNCHED | 2020 | 2021 |
| MEMORY | 24 GB GDDR6X | 24 GB GDDR6 ECC |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 936 GB/s | 768 GB/s |
| TENSOR COMPUTE | 142 TFLOPS FP16 tensor dense (285 sparse) | 111 TFLOPS FP16 tensor dense (222 sparse) |
| POWER DRAW | 350 W | 230 W |
| INTERCONNECT | PCIe 4.0 x16 (NVLink bridge on pairs) | PCIe 4.0 x16 (NVLink bridge on pairs) |
HOW TO CHOOSE
RTX 3090 vs RTX A5000
Same 24 GB and NVLink support with workstation drivers and lower power - the datacenter-friendly sibling.
RTX A5000 vs RTX 3090
Same memory and linking; 3090 has ~28% more compute at 120 W more. For long runs the A5000's efficiency and ECC can win.
Workload fit
RTX 3090: budget fine-tuning, small-model inference. RTX A5000: fine-tuning, workstation graphics.
RTX 3090 VS RTX A5000 - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, RTX 3090 or RTX A5000?
By today's published on-demand rates: RTX 3090 starts at $0.080/GPU/hr (median $0.45, 26 providers) and RTX A5000 starts at $0.090/GPU/hr (median $0.44, 11 providers). The cheapest live listing is the RTX 3090 at SpotGPUs. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
RTX 3090 or RTX A5000 - 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 A5000: The RTX A5000 is the workstation take on the 3090's class: 24 GB ECC, NVLink bridge support, 230 W. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.
Where can I rent RTX 3090 and RTX A5000?
26 providers publish RTX 3090 rates and 11 publish RTX A5000 rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.
Full pricing: RTX 3090 · RTX A5000 · all comparisons