RTX 3090 GPU Rental
RTX 3090 GPUs on Lium have a reference price of $0.16 per GPU-hour, ideal for AI experiments and graphics at a low price point. Billed per second with no minimum, deployed in seconds from the browser or the CLI.
Price per GPU-hour
$0.16
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About the RTX 3090
The RTX 3090 is NVIDIA’s Ampere-generation GeForce flagship and one of the cheapest ways to rent 24 GB of GPU memory. Its 24 GB of GDDR6X at 936 GB/s holds the same models as an RTX 4090 at a lower hourly price; it is slower per card and has no FP8, but for inference, notebooks and image generation that trade is often worth it. Unlike the RTX 4090 and RTX 5090, it supports an NVLink bridge between two cards. On Lium it is rented from independent providers by the second, with no minimum and no reservation. If you own one, you can list it on Lium and earn whenever it is rented.
What people run on it
- Low-cost inference of 7B–13B models
- Stable Diffusion and image generation
- Notebooks, coursework and prototyping
- Rendering and CUDA development
RTX 3090 specifications
| VRAM | 24 GB GDDR6X |
|---|---|
| Memory bandwidth | 936 GB/s |
| Architecture | Ampere |
| Released | 2020 |
What runs on one RTX 3090
With 24 GB of memory, one card holds roughly the following open models for inference, counting the weights plus about 20% for activations and cache. Rent several GPUs in one pod to go bigger.
| Precision | Largest model that fits |
|---|---|
| FP16 | 7B parameters |
| 8-bit | 13B parameters |
| 4-bit | 34B parameters |
Running one RTX 3090 around the clock for a month (730 hours) costs about $117 at the reference price; you pay only for the seconds a pod runs.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to rent an RTX 3090 on Lium?
No RTX 3090 pod is free at this moment. The marketplace reference price is $0.16 per GPU-hour; the page updates when a provider lists one.
Where is the cheapest place to rent an RTX 3090 by the hour?
No RTX 3090 pod is free on Lium at this moment; the reference price is $0.16 per GPU-hour, billed per second with no minimum once a provider lists one.
Is there a minimum rental period?
No. Lium bills per second with no minimum and no reservation: start the pod when you need it, delete it when the job is done, and pay for the seconds it ran.
How do I rent an RTX 3090 pod?
Top up a balance by card or crypto, pick an RTX 3090 pod on the marketplace, choose a Docker template, add your SSH key and deploy. From a script, run lium up with the node id after exporting LIUM_API_KEY.
Where do the machines run, and what happens to my data?
Providers run their own hardware in their own facilities, and every pod on the marketplace names its city and country, so you can pick a region before you start. Your data lives on the machine you rented and is released when you delete the pod; attach a volume if you need storage that outlives a single pod.
Compare with
| GPU | VRAM | Price per GPU-hour |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 4080 SUPER | 16 GB | reference $0.16/hr |
| RTX 4080 | 16 GB | reference $0.16/hr |
| RTX 3090 Ti | 24 GB | reference $0.16/hr |
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