Nvidia A100 vs Nvidia RTX 2060 Super

The A100 has 10x the memory and 4.3x the bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

10x more on A100

A100: 80 GB

RTX 2060 Super: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

4.3x higher on A100

A100: 1,935 GB/s

RTX 2060 Super: 448 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

A100: $0.89 /GPU/hr

RTX 2060 Super: --

Price comparison

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

Billing	A100	RTX 2060 Super
On-demand	$1.93 /GPU/hr from $0.89	No on-demand listings
Reserved	$1.67 /GPU/hr from $0.66 (24 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	$1.19 /GPU/hr from $0.68	No spot listings

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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

A100 vs RTX 2060 Super price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 15 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A100	RTX 2060 Super	Difference
Memory
Capacity	80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe	8 GB GDDR6	10x more on A100
Bandwidth	1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe	448 GB/s	4.3x higher on A100
Bus width	5,120-bit	256-bit	20x wider on A100
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	312 TFLOPS	28.7 TFLOPS	11x higher on A100
INT8	624 TOPS	114.8 TOPS	5.4x higher on A100
FP32	19.5 TFLOPS	7.2 TFLOPS	2.7x 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	175 W	71% higher on A100
Released	Q2 2020	Q3 2019	10 months newer on A100
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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 RTX 2060 Super datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	A100	RTX 2060 Super
Jarvislabs India	$0.89 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$1.07 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Thunder Compute USA	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Hyperstack UK	$1.35 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
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	--
Sesterce France	$1.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	--