{"author":"michaelt","children":[{"author":"kd913","children":[],"created_at":"2025-12-03T21:47:07.000Z","created_at_i":1764798427,"id":46140643,"options":[],"parent_id":46140385,"points":null,"story_id":46133141,"text":"A 5090 gaming card is a different beast to the 80gb ai cards. That one was 40k usd so for renting that to hit 1.50 dollar per hour is interesting.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2025-12-03T21:27:17.000Z","created_at_i":1764797237,"id":46140385,"options":[],"parent_id":46139415,"points":null,"story_id":46133141,"text":"On "runpod community cloud" renting a 5090 costs $0.69/hour [1] and it consumes about $0.10/hour electricity, if running at full power and paying $0.20/kWh.

On Amazon, buying a 5090 costs $3000 [2]

That's a payback time of 212 days. And Runpod is one of the cheaper cloud providers; for the GPUs I compared, EC2 was twice the price for an on-demand instance.

Rental prices for GPUs are pretty darn high.

[1] https://www.runpod.io/pricing\n[2] https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-Graphics-WINDFORCE-GV-N5090G...","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}