io.net Study Shows RTX 4090 Clusters Offer 62-78% H100 Performance at Half the Cost

Derived from Blockchainreporter, a peer-reviewed study from io.net published benchmarks showing that RTX 4090 consumer GPU clusters can deliver 62–78% of the throughput of Nvidia H100 datacenter GPUs at roughly half the cost. The research, presented at AIBC 2025, highlights a cost-performance 'sweet spot' for mixed GPU fleets, particularly for batch processing and latency-tolerant tasks. The paper recommends using consumer GPUs for development, embeddings, and background workloads to reduce costs and carbon footprint.