Intel Gaudi 2 vs Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada

The Gaudi 2 has 2x the memory and 2.6x the bandwidth. The two typically cost about the same.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on Gaudi 2

Gaudi 2: 96 GB

RTX 6000 Ada: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.6x higher on Gaudi 2

Gaudi 2: 2,450 GB/s

RTX 6000 Ada: 960 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

37% cheaper on RTX 6000 Ada

Gaudi 2: $1.04 /GPU/hr

RTX 6000 Ada: $0.65 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	Gaudi 2	RTX 6000 Ada	Difference
On-demand	$1.10 /GPU/hr from $1.04	$1.14 /GPU/hr from $0.65	Within 5%
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.59 (12 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $1.04 (24 mo)
Spot	No spot listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.69

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 Gaudi 2 and reserved and spot on the RTX 6000 Ada: 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 6000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	Gaudi 2	RTX 6000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	96 GB HBM2e	48 GB GDDR6	2x more on Gaudi 2
Bandwidth	2,450 GB/s	960 GB/s	2.6x higher on Gaudi 2
Bus width		384-bit
Compute · dense
FP8	865 TFLOPS	728.5 TFLOPS	19% higher on Gaudi 2
FP16 / BF16	432 TFLOPS	364.2 TFLOPS	19% higher on Gaudi 2
FP32		91.1 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 2022	7 months newer on RTX 6000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: Gaudi 2 datasheet and RTX 6000 Ada 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	RTX 6000 Ada
Runcrate USA	$1.43 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	$1.26 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Sesterce France	$1.21 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.07 /GPU/hr On-demand
Cyfuture AI India	$1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Denvr Canada	$1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	--	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.99 /GPU/hr On-demand
Verda Finland	--	$1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand
EmpirioLabs AI USA	--	$1.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
TensorDock Distributed	--	$0.86 /GPU/hr On-demand