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RTX PRO 6000 WS vs RTX 5090: specs, price per hour, which to rent
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 WS (96 GB, $1.097/hr) against NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32 GB, $0.318/hr): public specs side by side, live fixed prices from our sheet, what fits in each card's VRAM, and a verdict written for real workloads — both are rentable right now.
RTX PRO 6000 WS vs RTX 5090 specifications
Public NVIDIA figures (dense, non-sparsity). The last column is RTX PRO 6000 WS relative to RTX 5090.
| Spec | RTX PRO 6000 WS | RTX 5090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Blackwell (2025) | Blackwell (2025) | — |
| VRAM | 96 GB GDDR7 | 32 GB GDDR7 | +200% |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,792 GB/s | 1,792 GB/s | same |
| FP16 tensor (dense) | 505 TFLOPS | 419 TFLOPS | +21% |
| FP32 | 125.0 TFLOPS | 104.8 TFLOPS | +19% |
| CUDA cores | 24,064 | 21,760 | +11% |
| TDP | 600 W | 575 W | +4% |
| PCIe · NVLink | Gen 5.0 · no NVLink | Gen 5.0 · no NVLink | — |
| PowerScore (RTX 3090 = 100) | 356 | 295 | +21% |
| Max GPUs per machine | 8× | 8× | — |
RTX PRO 6000 WS vs RTX 5090 price per hour
Fixed rates from our sheet — every on-demand price is the marketplace median × 0.70, rounded down. Monthly = 730 hours.
| Rate | RTX PRO 6000 WS | RTX 5090 | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand, per GPU-hour | $1.097 | $0.318 | RTX 5090 (−71%) |
| Interruptible, per GPU-hour | $0.548 | $0.159 | RTX 5090 |
| Reserved (3 mo), per GPU-hour | $0.713 | $0.206 | RTX 5090 |
| On-demand, per month | $801 | $232 | RTX 5090 |
| Market median (reference) | $1.57 | $0.45 | — |
| $ per 1,000 FP16 TFLOP-hours | $2.17 | $0.76 | RTX 5090 (better value) |
| $ per GB of VRAM per hour | $0.0114 | $0.0099 | RTX 5090 (better value) |
Try a full month with storage and bandwidth in the GPU cost calculator.
What fits in VRAM: 96 GB vs 32 GB
| Workload | RTX PRO 6000 WS | RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| Largest LLM in FP16, one card | ~32B | ~13B |
| Largest LLM at 4-bit, one card | ~141B | ~49B |
| Flux dev (FP8, ~17 GB) | fits | fits |
| Wan 2.x 14B video (offloaded) | yes | yes |
| 70B 4-bit LLM on one card | yes | no |
Rules of thumb: ~2.4 GB per billion parameters in FP16 all-in, ~0.62 GB in 4-bit. Full tables in the VRAM guide.
Verdict: which should you rent?
Same Blackwell generation: the PRO 6000 triples VRAM (96 vs 32 GB) and adds ECC and studio drivers; the RTX 5090 is much cheaper per hour with similar per-core throughput. Rent the 5090 unless the model or scene simply does not fit.
- Cheaper per hour: RTX 5090 ($0.318 vs $1.097, −71%).
- More VRAM: RTX PRO 6000 WS (96 GB vs 32 GB).
- More FP16 throughput: RTX PRO 6000 WS (about 1.2×).
- Best value per TFLOP-hour: RTX 5090.
- Best value per GB of VRAM: RTX 5090.
- Multi-GPU: RTX PRO 6000 WS over PCIe · RTX 5090 over PCIe.
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RTX PRO 6000 WS vs RTX 5090: FAQ
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Is the RTX PRO 6000 WS faster than the RTX 5090?
On dense FP16 tensor throughput the RTX PRO 6000 WS leads by about 1.2× (505 vs 419 TFLOPS). Memory bandwidth matters as much for inference: RTX PRO 6000 WS 1,792 GB/s vs RTX 5090 1,792 GB/s.
Which is cheaper to rent, the RTX PRO 6000 WS or the RTX 5090?
The RTX 5090: $0.318/hr on-demand versus $1.097/hr — 71% less. Interruptible rates are $0.548 (RTX PRO 6000 WS) and $0.159 (RTX 5090). Per TFLOP-hour the better value is the RTX 5090.
Which has more VRAM and what does that change?
The RTX PRO 6000 WS has 96 GB versus 32 GB. In LLM terms that is roughly a 32B FP16 model (or ~141B in 4-bit) on one card against 13B FP16 (~49B 4-bit). If the model does not fit, speed is irrelevant.
Can I rent both on PowerGPU right now?
Yes — 52 × RTX PRO 6000 WS and 516 × RTX 5090 are online as this page renders, deployable in about 30 seconds, billed per second, paid in crypto with no KYC.