A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Ampere and one Pascal: 80 GB HBM2e against 2 GB GDDR5, 30x the memory bandwidth on the A100, and NVLink 600 GB/s on the A100 where the P600 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 80 GB
- HBM2e · 40 GB on SXM, PCIe
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.94 TB/s
- 2,039 GB/s on SXM · 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe
- From
- $0.89 /GPU/hr
- 43 providers
- Memory
- 2 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 64 GB/s
- From
- --
- Not sold on demand · 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A100 | P600 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.89 | Not sold on demand | |
| Spot | $0.68 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.56 | $0.07 | 8.3x more expensive on A100 |
| Median | $1.81 | $0.07 | 25x more expensive on A100 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A100 vs P600 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A100 | P600 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe | 2 GB GDDR5 | 40x more on A100 |
| Bandwidth | 1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe | 64 GB/s | 30x higher on A100 |
| Bus width | 5,120-bit | 128-bit | 40x wider on A100 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 312 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | 624 TOPS | Not supported | A100 only |
| FP32 | 19.5 TFLOPS | 1.1 TFLOPS | 18x higher on A100 |
| FP64 | 9.7 TFLOPS | Not supported | A100 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 600 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on A100 only |
| Board power | 300 W | 40 W | 7.5x higher on A100 |
| Released | Q2 2020 | Q1 2017 | 3 years newer on A100 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8 | FP16FP32 | |
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 P600 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A100 /GPU/hr | P600 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.89 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.91 | -- |
Thunder Compute
|
On-Demand $1.09 | -- |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $1.35 | -- |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $1.39 | -- |
Packet·ai
|
On-Demand $1.43 | -- |
Spheron
|
On-Demand $1.43 | -- |
Oblivus
|
On-Demand $1.47 | -- |
Database Mart
|
-- | Reserved (24mo) $0.07 |
43 providers list the A100 and 1 the P600. Every listing is on the A100 page and the P600 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A100 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia P600 on Sept. 7, 2026.