Nvidia A100 vs Nvidia A5000

The A100 has 3.3x the memory and 2.5x the bandwidth. The A5000 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

3.3x more on A100

A100: 80 GB

A5000: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.5x higher on A100

A100: 1,935 GB/s

A5000: 768 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

38% cheaper on A5000

A100: $0.37 /GPU/hr

A5000: $0.23 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A100	A5000	Difference
On-demand	$1.82 /GPU/hr from $0.37	$0.75 /GPU/hr from $0.23	58% cheaper on A5000
Reserved	$1.60 /GPU/hr from $0.53 (1 mo)	$0.35 /GPU/hr from $0.19 (12 mo)	78% cheaper on A5000
Spot	$0.86 /GPU/hr from $0.16	-- /GPU/hr from $0.09

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 spot on the A5000: 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

A100 vs A5000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A100	A5000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe	24 GB GDDR6	3.3x more on A100
Bandwidth	1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe	768 GB/s	2.5x higher on A100
Bus width	5,120-bit	384-bit	13x wider on A100
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	312 TFLOPS	111.1 TFLOPS	2.8x higher on A100
INT8	624 TOPS
FP32	19.5 TFLOPS	27.8 TFLOPS	43% higher on A5000
FP64	9.7 TFLOPS	Not supported	A100 only
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 600 GB/s	NVLink 112 GB/s	5.4x higher on A100
Board power	300 W	230 W	30% higher on A100
Released	Q2 2020	Q2 2021	11 months newer on A5000
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

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

Source: A100 datasheet and A5000 datasheet.

Where to rent them

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

Provider	A100	A5000
Vast.ai USA	$0.37 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand
Thunder Compute USA	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lium Distributed	$1.22 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Massed Compute USA	$1.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Spheron Singapore	$1.43 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Packet·ai USA	$1.43 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	--	$1.56 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	--	$1.85 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Exoscale Switzerland	--	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand
Paperspace USA	--	$1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand