Nvidia A100 vs Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada

The A100 has 3.3x the memory and 4.5x the bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

3.3x more on A100

A100: 80 GB

RTX 4500 Ada: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

4.5x higher on A100

A100: 1,935 GB/s

RTX 4500 Ada: 432 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

A100: $0.89 /GPU/hr

RTX 4500 Ada: --

Price comparison

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

Billing	A100	RTX 4500 Ada
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 4500 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A100	RTX 4500 Ada	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	432 GB/s	4.5x higher on A100
Bus width	5,120-bit	192-bit	27x wider on A100
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	317 TFLOPS	RTX 4500 Ada only
FP16 / BF16	312 TFLOPS	158.5 TFLOPS	97% higher on A100
INT8	624 TOPS
FP32	19.5 TFLOPS	39.6 TFLOPS	2x higher on RTX 4500 Ada
FP64	9.7 TFLOPS	Not supported	A100 only
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 600 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on A100 only
Board power	300 W	210 W	43% higher on A100
Released	Q2 2020	Q3 2023	3 years newer on RTX 4500 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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 4500 Ada 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 4500 Ada
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	--