Intel Gaudi 2 vs Nvidia A40

The Gaudi 2 is newer, with 2x the memory and 3.5x the bandwidth. The A40 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on Gaudi 2

Gaudi 2: 96 GB

A40: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.5x higher on Gaudi 2

Gaudi 2: 2,450 GB/s

A40: 696 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

43% cheaper on A40

Gaudi 2: $1.04 /GPU/hr

A40: $0.59 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	Gaudi 2	A40	Difference
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $1.04	$1.05 /GPU/hr from $0.59
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.59 (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 on-demand and reserved on the Gaudi 2 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

Gaudi 2 vs A40 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

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

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

Source: Gaudi 2 datasheet and A40 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	Gaudi 2	A40
Denvr Canada	$1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	$1.21 /GPU/hr On-demand	$2.05 /GPU/hr On-demand
Cyfuture AI India	$1.03 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	--	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	--	$2.42 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Exoscale Switzerland	--	$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	--	$0.61 /GPU/hr Reserved
EmpirioLabs AI USA	--	$1.49 /GPU/hr On-demand