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Rent NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 in the Cloud

Top consumer GPU widely available in cloud at budget prices. Excellent for Stable Diffusion and small model inference.

VRAM 24 GB GDDR6X
Bandwidth 1,008 GB/s
FP16 330.0 TFLOPS
FP32 82.6 TFLOPS
TDP 450W
Architecture Ada Lovelace
Cheapest On-Demand $0.28/hr
Average On-Demand $0.52/hr
Providers 3

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Cloud Pricing — 3 Providers

On-Demand

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — On-Demand pricing
Provider Price / GPU / hr Availability Notes Action
Vast.ai United States $0.28/hr CHEAPEST Available Marketplace avg Visit Provider
RunPod United States $0.59/hr Available Secure Cloud Visit Provider
Novita AI United States $0.69/hr Available Visit Provider

Spot / Preemptible

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — Spot / Preemptible pricing
Provider Price / GPU / hr Availability Notes Action
RunPod United States $0.34/hr CHEAPEST Available Community Cloud Visit Provider
Novita AI United States $0.39/hr Available Spot, 1hr guaranteed Visit Provider

Prices last verified: April 13, 2026

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Technical Specifications

Manufacturer NVIDIA
Architecture Ada Lovelace
VRAM 24 GB GDDR6X
Memory Bandwidth 1,008 GB/s
FP16 (Tensor) 330.0 TFLOPS
FP32 82.6 TFLOPS
TDP 450W
Release Year 2022
Segment Consumer
Memory Type GDDR6X

Best For

AI experimentation inference fine-tuning small models image generation

Frequently Asked Questions

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 reserved vs on-demand — which saves more?

When pricing a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 cloud VM, start with the on-demand floor of $0.28 per hour (offered by Vast.ai) and layer discounts on top. If the job can checkpoint, spot drops the rate to $0.34 per hour on RunPod — roughly up to 60% off on-demand.

Long-lived services migrate to reserved tiers for an additional ~up to 40% saving. The 3-provider market ensures competitive pricing, but regional availability and GPU count per node affect real-world cost more than headline rates.

Ready to deploy? Vast.ai has NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 from $0.28/hr. RunPod and Novita AI also carry it.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 full datasheet — the specs that matter for deep learning

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is a 2022-generation Ada Lovelace card with 24 GB of GDDR6X memory and 1,008 GB/s bandwidth. Compute peaks at 330 FP16 TFLOPS and 82.6 FP32 TFLOPS; TDP sits at 450W.

The VRAM/bandwidth pairing is the defining feature for machine learning work — it determines what model sizes are accessible and how hard the card can be pushed during production inference. Power draw and cooling requirements mean most NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 deployments live in data centres rather than workstations, which is why most NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 access in practice comes via the cloud.

Top cloud providers offering NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090: Vast.ai (from $0.28/hr), RunPod, and Novita AI. Start comparing live rates.

How many images per second can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 generate?

Real performance numbers for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090: 330 FP16 TFLOPS / 82.6 FP32 TFLOPS / 1,008 GB/s bandwidth / 24 GB VRAM.

For context, that's the compute envelope used to train and serve most commercial LLMs in production today. Whether you're running research-grade training or latency-sensitive low-latency inference, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 generally hits the throughput envelope expected from its Ada Lovelace generation, with the specific number driven by batch size, sequence length, and quantisation choices.

Launch a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 instance on Vast.ai from $0.28/hr — or check RunPod and Novita AI for alternative regions and availability.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 cloud availability — who has it?

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is available from 3 cloud providers we monitor — currently: Novita AI, RunPod, Vast.ai. The lowest-priced on-demand pricing comes from Vast.ai at $0.28 per hour, while RunPod offers spot capacity from $0.34 per hour.

Each provider trades off differently: community clouds lead on price, bare-metal specialists lead on interconnect quality, and hyperscalers lead on regions and enterprise tooling. Match the provider to the workload's priority — cost, latency, region, or compliance — rather than picking purely on headline rate.

Get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 cloud access from Vast.ai, RunPod, or Novita AI. Live pricing, fast provisioning, competitive rates.

Should I pick NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 or something cheaper for serving?

Use cases where NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 performs well: AI experimentation, inference, fine-tuning small models, image generation. The card's 24 GB of VRAM, Ada Lovelace tensor cores, and consumer positioning suit it for AI teams who need cloud-grade hardware without the premium of the newest accelerators.

A good rule of thumb: if your model fits in 24 GB of VRAM at your target precision, and your workload is bandwidth- or compute-bound rather than memory-bound, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is likely a better economic choice than upgrading to a higher tier.

Rent NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 today from Vast.ai, RunPod, or Novita AI — compare live pricing and spin up in minutes.

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