NVIDIA / Ada Lovelace
RTX 4090
| Provider / plan | Price / GPU-hour | Rental type | Terms & configuration | Last checked | Provider pricing link |
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| SaladCloudCommunity / batch | $0.16Lowest flexible rateGPU only · CPU/RAM extra | ServerlessActive GPU time | 1 GPU minimumConfirm with providerView detailsPublic USD per GPU-hour; billed per second while running. High priority avoids priority preemption but nodes may disconnect.
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| SaladCloudCommunity / low | $0.2170GPU only · CPU/RAM extra | ServerlessActive GPU time | 1 GPU minimumConfirm with providerView detailsPublic USD per GPU-hour; billed per second while running. High priority avoids priority preemption but nodes may disconnect.
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| SaladCloudCommunity / medium | $0.2730GPU only · CPU/RAM extra | ServerlessActive GPU time | 1 GPU minimumConfirm with providerView detailsPublic USD per GPU-hour; billed per second while running. High priority avoids priority preemption but nodes may disconnect.
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| CloudRift3-month reservation | $0.33 | ReservedCommitment required | 1 GPU minimumSee provider3 months, upfrontView detailsPer-GPU published list rate; capacity and exact server configuration must be checked with the provider.
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| SaladCloudCommunity / high | $0.33GPU only · CPU/RAM extra | ServerlessActive GPU time | 1 GPU minimumConfirm with providerView detailsPublic USD per GPU-hour; billed per second while running. High priority avoids priority preemption but nodes may disconnect.
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| Vast.aiOn-demand offer 53964652 | $0.3444 | On-demandNo reservation | 1 GPU minimumJapan, JPView detailsObserved marketplace offer, not a provider-wide list rate. Total hourly quote for one GPU with the API default disk allocation; bandwidth and additional storage can cost extra. Up to 5 cheapest matching offers per catalog GPU; availability can change.
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| CloudRift1-month reservation | $0.35 | ReservedCommitment required | 1 GPU minimumSee provider1 month, upfrontView detailsPer-GPU published list rate; capacity and exact server configuration must be checked with the provider.
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| Vast.aiOn-demand offer 49011501 | $0.3756 | On-demandNo reservation | 1 GPU minimumBulgaria, BGView detailsObserved marketplace offer, not a provider-wide list rate. Total hourly quote for one GPU with the API default disk allocation; bandwidth and additional storage can cost extra. Up to 5 cheapest matching offers per catalog GPU; availability can change.
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| Vast.aiOn-demand offer 47256379 | $0.3889 | On-demandNo reservation | 1 GPU minimumMalaysia, MYView detailsObserved marketplace offer, not a provider-wide list rate. Total hourly quote for one GPU with the API default disk allocation; bandwidth and additional storage can cost extra. Up to 5 cheapest matching offers per catalog GPU; availability can change.
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| CloudRiftOn-demand | $0.39 | On-demandNo reservation | 1 GPU minimumSee providernoneView detailsPer-GPU published list rate; capacity and exact server configuration must be checked with the provider.
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| Vast.aiOn-demand offer 29805954 | $0.4030 | On-demandNo reservation | 1 GPU minimumBulgaria, BGView detailsObserved marketplace offer, not a provider-wide list rate. Total hourly quote for one GPU with the API default disk allocation; bandwidth and additional storage can cost extra. Up to 5 cheapest matching offers per catalog GPU; availability can change.
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| Vast.aiOn-demand offer 51008170 | $0.4059 | On-demandNo reservation | 1 GPU minimumEstonia, EEView detailsObserved marketplace offer, not a provider-wide list rate. Total hourly quote for one GPU with the API default disk allocation; bandwidth and additional storage can cost extra. Up to 5 cheapest matching offers per catalog GPU; availability can change.
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| RunpodSecure Cloud Pods | $0.74 | On-demandNo reservation | 1 GPU minimumSee providerView detailsSecure Cloud Pods published GPU-hour rate. CPU/RAM allocation varies; storage/networking extra. Not live capacity.
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Prices are dated listings, not live availability. Compare minimum GPU counts and commitments. Storage, networking and taxes may add charges; serverless rates cover GPU time only.
RTX 4090 is a 24 GB Ada GeForce GPU for graphics and single-GPU compute. It is a candidate for image generation, quantized inference and smaller fine-tuning experiments. Its main sizing constraint is VRAM, especially for long context or concurrent users.
CHOOSING THIS GPU
Is it right for your workload?
24 GB desktop RTX 4090 reference specifications. Laptop GPUs and RTX 4090 D are different products.
Best suited to
- Image generation and GPU rendering
- 7B–14B-class quantized inference experiments
- Adapter fine-tuning with reduced batch sizes
Strengths
- Ada Tensor and RT technology
- 24 GB on a single card
- AV1 encoding support
Things to consider
- No NVLink
- 450 W reference graphics power
- Full-precision large-model weights can exceed VRAM
HARDWARE DETAILS
Inside the GPU
- Manufacturer
- NVIDIA
- Architecture
- Ada Lovelace
- VRAM (GB)
- 24
- Memory type
- GDDR6X
- Form factor
- PCIe
- Memory bandwidth (GB/s)
- 1008
- Maximum board power (W)
- 450
- CUDA cores
- 16384
- Tensor cores
- 512 / 4th generation
- Ray tracing cores
- 128 / 3rd generation
- CUDA capability
- 8.9
- Memory ECC
- Not verified for this edition
- Host interface
- PCIe Gen4
- GPU interconnect
- Not supported
- Hardware partitioning (MIG)
- Not verified for this edition
- Cooling
- Active; board design varies
Hardware capabilities are not a guarantee of access in a cloud instance. Check the exact edition, GPU allocation and server topology in the rental offer.
MODEL MEMORY
Plan your model size
Start with an 8B-class model in a supported 4-bit format. FP16 8B weights alone are about 16 GB before runtime memory; reserve room for KV cache and activations. Adapter fine-tuning needs a separate training memory estimate.
| Example model class | Weight format | Raw weights ≈ | Minimum GPUs for weights only |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 8B ↗ | 4-bit | 4 GB | 1Runtime needs more memory |
| Llama 3.1 8B ↗ | FP16 | 16 GB | 1Runtime needs more memory |
| Qwen2.5 14B ↗ | 4-bit | 7 GB | 1Runtime needs more memory |
| Qwen2.5 32B ↗ | 4-bit | 16 GB | 1Runtime needs more memory |
| Llama 3.1 70B ↗ | 4-bit | 35 GB | 2Runtime needs more memory |
| Llama 3.1 70B ↗ | 8-bit | 70 GB | 3Runtime needs more memory |
| Llama 3.1 70B ↗ | FP16 | 140 GB | 6Runtime needs more memory |
Arithmetic lower bound: rounded parameter count × bits per weight ÷ 8, in decimal GB. Excludes quantization metadata, KV cache, activations, CUDA workspaces and training states. Actual model sizes differ from their rounded names. No context length, batch size or concurrency is guaranteed. GPU counts assume supported model sharding and can be higher in practice. Quantized checkpoints and compatible kernels are required for 4-bit/8-bit execution.
SOFTWARE & PERFORMANCE
Before you deploy
Software compatibility
Use an NVIDIA CUDA-enabled framework/container compatible with this GPU and the host driver. Check PyTorch build and inference-engine kernel requirements before deployment. vLLM documents NVIDIA compute capability 7.5+ as a baseline; support for each model and quantization method still needs checking.
Measured benchmarks
A reproducible, comparable application benchmark has not yet been recorded for this edition. Peak TFLOPS above are not measured tokens per second or image-generation speed.
Compare tests using the same model, precision, GPU count, engine version, input/output length and batch or concurrency. A provider’s server configuration can change the result.
COMPARE YOUR OPTIONS
Alternatives to consider
BUDGET YOUR RUN
GPU cost estimator
GPU compute only: hourly rate × billable hours × GPU count. CPU, RAM, storage, egress, taxes, billing increments and minimum terms may add charges. Serverless hours mean active GPU task time; spot capacity can be interrupted. Reserved commitments and quote-only offers are excluded from this simple hourly estimator.