Intel Gaudi 3 vs Nvidia RTX 5000

The Gaudi 3 is newer, with 8x the memory and 8.3x the bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

8x more on Gaudi 3

Gaudi 3: 128 GB

RTX 5000: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

8.3x higher on Gaudi 3

Gaudi 3: 3,700 GB/s

RTX 5000: 448 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

Gaudi 3 is not sold on demand

Gaudi 3: --

RTX 5000: $0.60 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	Gaudi 3	RTX 5000	Difference
On-demand	No on-demand listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.60

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 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 3 vs RTX 5000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	Gaudi 3	RTX 5000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	128 GB HBM2e	16 GB GDDR6	8x more on Gaudi 3
Bandwidth	3,700 GB/s	448 GB/s	8.3x higher on Gaudi 3
Bus width		256-bit
Compute · dense
FP8	1,678 TFLOPS	Not supported	Gaudi 3 only
FP16 / BF16	1,678 TFLOPS	89.2 TFLOPS	19x higher on Gaudi 3
INT8	Not supported	178.4 TOPS	RTX 5000 only
FP32		11.2 TFLOPS
Platform
Interconnect	RoCE 1,200 GB/s	NVLink 50 GB/s	24x higher on Gaudi 3
Board power	900 W	265 W	3.4x higher on Gaudi 3
Released	Q2 2024	Q3 2018	6 years newer on Gaudi 3
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32	FP16FP32INT4INT8