GPU rendering: rent RTX cards for Blender and Octane from €0.17 an hour
For Blender Cycles, Octane and Redshift the fastest value is the RTX 4090 and RTX 5090: consumer cards with high FP32 compute and 24–32 GB. For heavy scenes take a 48 GB RTX A6000 or L40S, or the 96 GB RTX PRO 6000. On VRAMfarm rendering cards start at €0.17 an hour, billed by the minute, and you can run several machines at once.
Rendering cards: compute and memory
| GPU | Memory | FP32, TFLOPS | Bandwidth, GB/s | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 3080 | 10 GB | ≈29.8 | 760 | €0.17/h |
| RTX 3090 | 24 GB | ≈35.6 | 936 | €0.30/h |
| RTX 4080 | 16 GB | ≈48.7 | 717 | €0.31/h |
| RTX 4090 | 24 GB | ≈82.6 | 1,008 | €0.59/h |
| RTX 5080 | 16 GB | ≈56.3 | 960 | €0.33/h |
| RTX 5090 | 32 GB | ≈104.8 | 1,792 | €0.76/h |
| RTX A6000 | 48 GB | ≈38.7 | 768 | €0.72/h |
| L40S | 48 GB | ≈91.6 | 864 | €1.06/h |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 96 GB | ≈125 | 1,792 | €2.12/h |
FP32 compute is a rough guide for Cycles, Octane and Redshift speed; memory decides how big a scene fits without falling back to slower out-of-core rendering. Prices are for one card per hour and change with the market; the price is fixed when you launch. Billing is per minute, minimum 15 minutes.
How people use it
Deadline renders
Split an animation by frames over several machines and finish overnight what your own computer would render in a week.
Blender in the terminal
Install Blender on a clean server and render with blender -b scene.blend -a. OptiX works on all RTX cards.
Heavy scenes
Scenes with large textures and simulations need memory: 48 GB on the RTX A6000 and L40S, 96 GB on the RTX PRO 6000.
Test before you buy
Try your real scene on an RTX 5090 or a workstation card for an hour before you spend thousands on hardware.
What makes a render fast
Path tracers like Cycles scale with FP32 compute and RT cores, so the newest consumer cards lead: the RTX 5090 is about 1.3–1.5 times faster than a 4090. Data-centre cards like the A100 and H100 are built for AI, have no RT cores and are poor value for rendering.
How to send scenes
Pack textures into the .blend file (File → External Data → Pack Resources) and upload over SSH with scp or rsync, or through Jupyter. For big projects keep assets in the saved folder so you do not upload them again each time.
Licences
Blender is free to run anywhere. Octane and Redshift need a licence that allows use on a remote or cloud machine; check yours before you start.
What a 250-frame animation costs
At 2 minutes per frame on one RTX 4090, 250 frames take about 8 hours and 20 minutes: roughly €4.96. On four machines at once it is the same money and about 2 hours of waiting.
Guides on this
12 November 2026 Blender rendering on a rented GPU: Cycles headless, several machines, Octane and Redshift
Render Blender Cycles with OptiX from the command line on an RTX 4090 or 5090, split 240 frames over four machines, and price a frame before you start.
11 November 2026 Rent or buy an RTX 4090 or RTX 5090 for AI: break-even hours in 2026
A used RTX 4090 costs about €2,000 and a 5090 about €4,500 (Nov 2026). Buying beats renting from roughly 90 GPU-hours a month. The full sum inside.
12 November 2026 RTX 5090 for AI: what 32 GB of GDDR7 runs that a 24 GB card can't
8 GB more than a 4090 and 78% more bandwidth: 32B models with long context, Wan 2.2 14B in fp8, Flux in bf16. Speed, CUDA 12.8 and when you need 48 GB.
Frequently asked questions
Which GPU is best for Blender rendering?
The RTX 5090 is the fastest single card, the RTX 4090 the best value. Take a 48 GB card only when the scene does not fit into 24–32 GB.
Can I use several GPUs for one render?
Yes. Blender uses all cards in one machine: choose a machine with 2, 4 or 8 cards. Or split frames between several machines.
Is there a graphical desktop?
No. Servers are reached over SSH and Jupyter, so rendering runs from the command line. Prepare the scene on your computer and render on the server.
Do I pay while I upload files?
Yes, billing runs from the moment the server is ready until you stop it. Upload big assets once and keep them in the saved folder.
Render on rented RTX cards
Top up from €10, pick an RTX 4090 or 5090 and start Blender over SSH.