Intel logo Intel Gaudi 2 vs Nvidia logo Nvidia RTX 5000

The Gaudi 2 is newer, with 6x the memory and 5.5x the bandwidth. The RTX 5000 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

6x more on Gaudi 2

Gaudi 2
96 GB
RTX 5000
16 GB

Memory bandwidth

5.5x higher on Gaudi 2

Gaudi 2
2,450 GB/s
RTX 5000
448 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

92% cheaper on RTX 5000

Gaudi 2
$1.02 /GPU/hr
RTX 5000
$0.08 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing Gaudi 2 RTX 5000 Difference
On-demand -- /GPU/hr from $1.02 $0.60 /GPU/hr from $0.08
Reserved -- /GPU/hr from $0.58 (12 mo) No reserved listings
Spot No spot listings -- /GPU/hr from $0.05

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 spot on the RTX 5000: 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 RTX 5000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months
Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec Gaudi 2 RTX 5000 Difference
Memory
Capacity 96 GB HBM2e 16 GB GDDR6 6x more on Gaudi 2
Bandwidth 2,450 GB/s 448 GB/s 5.5x higher on Gaudi 2
Bus width 256-bit
Compute · dense
FP8 865 TFLOPS Not supported Gaudi 2 only
FP16 / BF16 432 TFLOPS 89.2 TFLOPS 4.8x higher on Gaudi 2
INT8 178.4 TOPS
FP32 11.2 TFLOPS
Platform
Interconnect RoCE 600 GB/s NVLink 50 GB/s 12x higher on Gaudi 2
Board power 600 W 265 W 2.3x higher on Gaudi 2
Released Q2 2022 Q3 2018 4 years newer on Gaudi 2
Precision
Supported formats FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 FP16FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: Gaudi 2 datasheet and RTX 5000 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

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Our data for Intel Gaudi 2 was last updated on Sept. 23, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5000 on Sept. 14, 2026.