Best Cloud GPUs for Image Generation — May 2026
Stable Diffusion, FLUX, and other image generators are throughput-bound. These are the GPUs purpose-tagged for it.
RTX 5090 vs RTX 4090 vs RTX 3090 — top picks from this guide
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RTX 5090
Blackwell · 32 GB
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RTX 4090
Ada Lovelace · 24 GB
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RTX 3090
Ampere · 24 GB
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| Specifications | |||
| Manufacturer | NVIDIA | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| Architecture | Blackwell | Ada Lovelace | Ampere |
| VRAM | 32 GB GDDR7 | 24 GB GDDR6X | 24 GB GDDR6X |
| Memory Bandwidth | 1,792 GB/s | 1,008 GB/s | 936 GB/s |
| FP16 (Tensor) | 419 TFLOPS | 330 TFLOPS | 142 TFLOPS |
| FP32 | 104.8 TFLOPS | 82.6 TFLOPS | 35.6 TFLOPS |
| TDP | 575 W | 450 W | 350 W |
| Release Year | 2025 | 2022 | 2020 |
| Segment | Consumer | Consumer | Consumer |
| Cloud Pricing | |||
| Cheapest On-Demand | $0.34/hr | $0.28/hr | $0.12/hr |
| Providers | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Build your own GPU comparison
Select any 2 GPUs from this guide and open them side-by-side.
Tip: GPU comparisons run in pairs. Pick exactly 2 — if you skip selection, we open the top 2 from this guide.