SaladCloud offers RTX 5090/5080 just 24 hours after launch
On January 30th, 2025, Jensen Huang (and his customary leather jacket) launched the NVIDIA RTX 5000 series GPUs at CES. For the GPU-hungry AI/ML crowd, the 5000 series GPUs – RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti and 5070, offered benefits similar to the earlier RTX/GTX GPUs – a viable, affordable alternative to the more expensive datacenter GPUs for many workloads.
Thanks to the power of our crowdsourced model and community, SaladCloud became the first provider to offer the latest GPUs from Nvidia’s stable for compute workloads.
Just 24 hours after the launch, our internal Slack channel beeped with the message:
“We have the first 3 5090s enabled on the network”
One of our “chefs” – compute providers on our distributed network – from Italy offered their RTX 5090 on SaladCloud. Soon two other RTX 5090s followed – from the US and the UK.
By the end of the week, dozens of RTX 5090s were live on our distributed cloud platform, ready to power cutting-edge AI/ML, video and rendering workloads before any major cloud provider could even list them.
How did we pull this off? The answer lies in our unique community cloud model.
How we brought RTX 5090s to the cloud first
Traditional cloud providers source GPUs through centralized data centers, which means they’re at the mercy of long lead times and supplier bottlenecks. For users, this often translates into two things:
- Long wait-times to access the latest GPUs as pre-order shipping times to clouds vary
- Challenges scaling workloads as datacenter GPUs are often reserved for committed use accounts
- Overpaying for datacenter GPUs as the supply of AI-enabled consumer GPUs like the RTX 5090 is limited (or even restricted)
SaladCloud takes a different approach. We utilize the power of a global community of individual GPU owners who contribute their latent hardware time to the network in exchange for rewards.
There are more than 100 Million AI-enabled GPUs in the world today. A majority of them sit idle for 18-20 hrs a day.
This unused compute is what we harness to power SaladCloud.
That means when NVIDIA’s latest RTX 5090 GPUs started hitting the market, SaladCloud was ready to integrate them immediately. Individual power users, AI enthusiasts, and institutions with early access to these GPUs began contributing their compute to SaladCloud, allowing us to offer RTX 5090s to developers before anyone else.
This also means that when AI/ML companies need to scale to 100s of GPUs and can’t find supply on hyperscalers and other clouds, SaladCloud can tap into our network of 450,000+ GPU owners to bring more GPUs online in hours.
While many companies are working on a distributed cloud, SaladCloud is the largest distributed cloud in the world with 20,000+ daily active GPUs and a pool of 450,000+ GPUs to activate from.
Cost of 5090/5080 on SaladCloud and how to deploy them
The RTX 5090 is now available from just $0.27 per hour.
The RTX 5080 costs just $0.195 per hour with batch priority.
These are the lowest prices in the market today to rent these GPUs.
To deploy these GPUs for your workloads, head over to portal.salad.com, create an account and start renting.
What RTX 5090/5080 means for AI developers
The RTX 5090 represents a massive leap in GPU performance. With 32GB of VRAM, a higher core count, and significantly increased memory bandwidth, it’s an AI powerhouse designed to handle the most demanding workloads.
Puget Systems has already benchmarked both 5090 and 5080 for many use cases.
Whether you’re deploying real-time inference at scale, running generative AI workloads, or rendering 3D models and videos, the 5090 is a good upgrade for many AI use cases. For example, Flux.1 fine-tuning for AI image generation will get better cost-performance on a 5090 on SaladCloud.
The 5080 also shows robust performance for many AI use cases – as good as the 4080 for image generation (SD.Next), for example.
Key benefits of running on SaladCloud:
- First-to-market access – No waiting for traditional cloud vendors to catch up
- Massive cost savings – Prices start at just $0.02 per hour, far lower than big cloud providers.
- Scalable resources – Instantly deploy multiple GPUs for high-performance AI workloads from our network of 450,000+ providers
- Seamless integration – Spin up an instance in minutes, with full support for ML frameworks.
- Decentralized cloud power – Run your workloads on a global distributed network without reliance on a single provider’s data centers.
Why the future of Cloud Compute is community powered
SaladCloud is proving that a decentralized cloud can beat the hyperscalers and datacenter GPUs when it comes to speed, scalability, and cost. By tapping into the latent power of consumer GPUs sitting idle around the world, we’ve built a cloud that scales dynamically with market demand while saving thousands in compute cost.
The result? Developers and AI teams get faster, lower-cost access to cutting-edge GPUs like the 5090, at a fraction of the cost of traditional cloud services.
If you’re ready to experience the next generation of AI compute, start deploying workloads on RTX 5090s today.
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SaladCloud is the world’s largest distributed cloud computing network with 11,000+ daily GPUs and 450,000 GPUs contributing compute, all at the lowest cost in the market.
