Best Consumer / Gaming Cloud GPUs — May 2026
Consumer GPUs (RTX 30/40/50 GeForce) repurposed for cloud — the cheapest path to AI inference and experimentation.
NVIDIA
32 GB
RTX 5090
GDDR7
Blackwell
$0.34/hr
NVIDIA
24 GB
RTX 4090
GDDR6X
Ada Lovelace
$0.28/hr
NVIDIA
24 GB
RTX 3090
GDDR6X
Ampere
$0.12/hr
NVIDIA
24 GB
RTX 3090 Ti
GDDR6X
Ampere
NVIDIA
16 GB
RTX 5080
GDDR7
Blackwell
NVIDIA
16 GB
RTX 4080 SUPER
GDDR6X
Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA
16 GB
RTX 4080
GDDR6X
Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA
16 GB
RTX 5070 Ti
GDDR7
Blackwell
NVIDIA
16 GB
RTX 4060 Ti
GDDR6
Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA
12 GB
RTX 4070 Ti
GDDR6X
Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA
12 GB
RTX 3080 Ti
GDDR6X
Ampere
NVIDIA
12 GB
RTX 4070
GDDR6X
Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA
10 GB
RTX 3080
GDDR6X
Ampere
NVIDIA
8 GB
RTX 3070 Ti
GDDR6X
Ampere
NVIDIA
8 GB
RTX 3070
GDDR6
Ampere
NVIDIA
8 GB
RTX 4060
GDDR6
Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA
8 GB
GTX 1080
GDDR5X
Pascal
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 |
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