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Gaudi2 vs A40

Intel Gaudi2 vs Nvidia A40

Two data center GPUs, one Gaudi (2nd Gen) and one Ampere: 96 GB HBM2e against 48 GB GDDR6, 3.5x the memory bandwidth on the Gaudi2, and RoCE 600 GB/s on the Gaudi2 where the A40 is PCIe only.

At a glance

Memory

Gaudi2: 96 GB
A40: 48 GB

2x more on Gaudi2

Memory bandwidth

Gaudi2: 2,450 GB/s
A40: 696 GB/s

3.5x higher on Gaudi2

Cheapest on-demand

Gaudi2: $1.03 /GPU/hr
A40: $0.49 /GPU/hr

2.1x more expensive on Gaudi2

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	Gaudi2	A40	Difference
On-demand	$1.21 /GPU/hr from $1.03	$0.49 /GPU/hr from $0.49	2.5x more expensive on Gaudi2
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.58 (12 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.61 (24 mo)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for reserved on the Gaudi2 and reserved on the A40: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

Gaudi2 vs A40 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	Gaudi2	A40	Difference
Memory
Capacity	96 GB HBM2e	48 GB GDDR6	2x more on Gaudi2
Bandwidth	2,450 GB/s	696 GB/s	3.5x higher on Gaudi2
Bus width		384-bit
Compute · dense
FP8	865 TFLOPS	Not supported	Gaudi2 only
FP16 / BF16	432 TFLOPS	149.7 TFLOPS	2.9x higher on Gaudi2
INT8		299.3 TOPS
FP32		37.4 TFLOPS
Platform
Interconnect	RoCE 600 GB/s	PCIe only	RoCE on Gaudi2 only
Board power	600 W	300 W	2x higher on Gaudi2
Released	Q2 2022	Q4 2020	2 years newer on Gaudi2
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: Gaudi2 datasheet and A40 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider	Gaudi2 /GPU/hr	A40 /GPU/hr
Sesterce	On-Demand $1.21	On-Demand $1.21
Runcrate	On-Demand $1.21	--
Cyfuture AI	On-Demand $1.03	--
GPU.ai	--	On-Demand $0.49
Runpod	--	On-Demand $0.49
Exoscale	--	On-Demand $1.05
Database Mart	--	Reserved (24mo) $0.61
Utho	--	Reserved (36mo) $0.65
EmpirioLabs AI	--	On-Demand $1.49