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GPU comparison

GH200 vs RTX 4090.

The GH200 is ahead on memory (96 GB vs 24 GB) and speed (6.0x the FP16 throughput and up to 4.0x the memory bandwidth). The RTX 4090 makes sense when your model fits in 24 GB and its hourly price is lower.

Rent either on Runcrate

Live hourly price, then per GB of memory and per 100 FP16 TFLOPS.

Which is better for

Which to pick for each job. Memory fit and throughput, from the datasheets.

  • Hold a 70B model in 8-bit weights

    70 GB of 8-bit weights

    GH200: 1 GPU, 26 GB spare

    RTX 4090: 4 GPUs, more than one 2x node

    GH200. Fits on one GPU.

  • Serve an 8B model in 16-bit weights

    16 GB of 16-bit weights

    GH200: 1 GPU, 80 GB spare

    RTX 4090: 1 GPU, 8 GB spare

    GH200. Same GPU count, up to 4.0x the memory bandwidth.

  • Fine-tune a 70B model with QLoRA

    About 46 GB with 4-bit weights

    GH200: 1 GPU, 50 GB spare

    RTX 4090: 2 GPUs (48 GB)

    GH200. Fits on one GPU.

  • Train on a full node

    FP16 tensor throughput per node

    GH200: 1x, 990 TFLOPS

    RTX 4090: 2x, 330 TFLOPS

    GH200. 6.0x the FP16 throughput per GPU.

  • Throughput per watt

    FP16 TFLOPS per 100 W of TDP

    GH200: Superchip power, not a GPU TDP

    RTX 4090: 37 TFLOPS per 100 W

    Either. Not comparable.

Compare another pair

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Hopper

NVIDIA GH200

Not in stock right now
Memory
96 GB HBM3
FP16 tensor
990 TFLOPS
Bandwidth
up to 4.0 TB/s
Full pricing details

Ada Lovelace

NVIDIA RTX 4090

from$0.57/hr per GPU

on an 8-GPU machine

Available now · 4 regions
Memory
24 GB GDDR6X
FP16 tensor
165.2 TFLOPS
Bandwidth
1.0 TB/s
Full pricing details

At a glance

Spec by spec. The longer bar is the better number.

Memory

NVIDIA GH20096 GB
NVIDIA RTX 409024 GB

Memory bandwidth

NVIDIA GH200up to 4.0 TB/s
NVIDIA RTX 40901.0 TB/s

FP16 tensor

NVIDIA GH200990 TFLOPS
NVIDIA RTX 4090165.2 TFLOPS

FP32

NVIDIA GH20067 TFLOPS
NVIDIA RTX 409082.6 TFLOPS

Full specs

The complete spec sheet.

SpecNVIDIA GH200NVIDIA RTX 4090
ArchitectureHopperAda Lovelace
Memory96 GB24 GB
Memory typeHBM3GDDR6X
Memory bandwidthup to 4.0 TB/s1.0 TB/s
FP3267 TFLOPS82.6 TFLOPS
FP16 tensor990 TFLOPS165.2 TFLOPS
INT81979 TOPS661 TOPS
Powerup to 1000 W per superchip (CPU, GPU and memory)450 W per GPU (TDP)
Form factorSuperchipConsumer
NVLinkOne GPUNo
GPUs per node12
Hourly price (live)Not in stock right nowfrom $0.57/hr per GPU on an 8-GPU machine

Questions

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