A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Ampere and one Turing: 24 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB GDDR6, 34% more memory bandwidth on the A10, and NVLink 50 GB/s on the RTX 5000 where the A10 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 18 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 600 GB/s
- From
- $0.20 /GPU/hr
- 9 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.60 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A10 | RTX 5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.20 | $0.60 | 3x more expensive on RTX 5000 |
| Spot | $0.60 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.17 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.42 | $0.71 | 50% cheaper on RTX 5000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A10 vs RTX 5000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A10 | RTX 5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 | 1.5x more on A10 |
| Bandwidth | 600 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 1.3x higher on A10 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 256-bit | 1.5x wider on A10 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 125 TFLOPS | 89.2 TFLOPS | 1.4x higher on A10 |
| INT8 | 250 TOPS | 178.4 TOPS | 1.4x higher on A10 |
| FP32 | 31.2 TFLOPS | 11.2 TFLOPS | 2.8x higher on A10 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 50 GB/s | NVLink on RTX 5000 only |
| Board power | 150 W | 265 W | 1.8x higher on RTX 5000 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q3 2018 | 3 years newer on A10 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A10 datasheet and RTX 5000 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A10 /GPU/hr | RTX 5000 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
OVH
|
On-Demand $1.00 | On-Demand $0.60 |
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.20 | -- |
Lambda Labs
|
On-Demand $1.29 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $1.42 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $1.42 | -- |
Cerebrium
|
On-Demand $1.10 | -- |
Alibaba Cloud
|
On-Demand $1.27 | -- |
Oracle Cloud
|
On-Demand $2.00 | -- |
Paperspace
|
-- | On-Demand $0.82 |
9 providers list the A10 and 2 the RTX 5000. Every listing is on the A10 page and the RTX 5000 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A10 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5000 on Sept. 7, 2026.