A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 80 GB HBM2e against 16 GB GDDR7, 3.8x the memory bandwidth on the A100, and NVLink 600 GB/s on the A100 where the RTX 5060 Ti is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 5 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
- 16 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 512 GB/s
- From
- $0.10 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A100 | RTX 5060 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.89 | $0.10 | 8.9x more expensive on A100 |
| Spot | $0.68 | $0.07 | 9.7x more expensive on A100 |
| Reserved | $0.66 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.79 | $0.14 | 13x 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 RTX 5060 Ti price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A100 | RTX 5060 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe | 16 GB GDDR7 | 5x more on A100 |
| Bandwidth | 1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe | 512 GB/s | 3.8x higher on A100 |
| Bus width | 5,120-bit | 128-bit | 40x wider on A100 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 379.5 TFLOPS | RTX 5060 Ti only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 94.8 TFLOPS | RTX 5060 Ti only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 312 TFLOPS | 47.4 TFLOPS | 6.6x higher on A100 |
| INT8 | 624 TOPS | 189.6 TOPS | 3.3x higher on A100 |
| FP32 | 19.5 TFLOPS | 23.7 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on RTX 5060 Ti |
| FP64 | 9.7 TFLOPS | Not supported | A100 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 600 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on A100 only |
| Board power | 300 W | 180 W | 1.7x higher on A100 |
| Released | Q2 2020 | Q2 2025 | 5 years newer on RTX 5060 Ti |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
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 5060 Ti datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A100 /GPU/hr | RTX 5060 Ti /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.95 | On-Demand $0.14 |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.89 | -- |
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 | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.10 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.18 |
43 providers list the A100 and 3 the RTX 5060 Ti. Every listing is on the A100 page and the RTX 5060 Ti page.
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Our data for Nvidia A100 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti on Sept. 7, 2026.