Overview

AMD logo AMD Radeon Pro V520

AMD GPU designed for cloud gaming and streaming, not AI compute.

Budget Datacenter

Nvidia logo Nvidia A40

Data center GPU for large-batch inference and professional visualization.

Mid-Range Datacenter

Memory per GPU

6x more on A40
AMD logo Radeon Pro V520
8 GB HBM2
Nvidia logo A40
48 GB GDDR6

Memory bandwidth

1.4x higher on A40
AMD logo Radeon Pro V520
512 GB/s
Nvidia logo A40
696 GB/s

GPU interconnect

AMD logo Radeon Pro V520
PCIe only
Nvidia logo A40
PCIe only

Peak performance (FP16)

10x higher on A40
AMD logo Radeon Pro V520
15 TFLOPS
Nvidia logo A40
150 TFLOPS

Vendor peak figures. Sparsity and tensor-core conventions differ between vendors.

Precision support

AMD logo Radeon Pro V520
FP16 FP32 INT4 INT8
Nvidia logo A40
FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

AMD logo Radeon Pro V520
RDNA
Nvidia logo A40
Ampere

Released

AMD logo Radeon Pro V520
Q2 2020
Nvidia logo A40
Q4 2020

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

1.2x higher on A40
AMD logo Radeon Pro V520
$0.38 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo A40
$0.44 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

1.2x higher on Radeon Pro V520
AMD logo Radeon Pro V520
$0.87 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo A40
$0.74 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Full price range

AMD logo Radeon Pro V520
$0.19 - $0.87 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo A40
$0.41 - $2.05 / GPU / hr

Lowest to highest listing per GPU-hour, across on-demand, spot, reserved and custom.

Providers listing it

4 more on A40
AMD logo Radeon Pro V520
1
Nvidia logo A40
5

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

Offers and availability

How this list works

Order

Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
  3. Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.

The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.

Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.

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Our data for AMD Radeon Pro V520 was last updated on Aug. 21, 2026, and for Nvidia A40 on Aug. 21, 2026.