A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 80 GB HBM2e against 48 GB GDDR6, 2x the memory bandwidth on the A100, and NVLink 600 GB/s on the A100 where the RTX 5880 Ada 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
- $0.37 /GPU/hr
- 44 providers
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.74 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A100 | RTX 5880 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.37 | $0.74 | 49% cheaper on A100 |
| Spot | $0.30 | $0.30 | Within 5% |
| Reserved | $0.61 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.76 | $0.74 | 2.4x 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 5880 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A100 | RTX 5880 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe | 48 GB GDDR6 | 1.7x more on A100 |
| Bandwidth | 1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe | 960 GB/s | 2x higher on A100 |
| Bus width | 5,120-bit | 384-bit | 13x wider on A100 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 554.2 TFLOPS | RTX 5880 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 312 TFLOPS | 277.1 TFLOPS | 1.1x higher on A100 |
| INT8 | 624 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 19.5 TFLOPS | 69.3 TFLOPS | 3.6x higher on RTX 5880 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 | 285 W | 1.1x higher on A100 |
| Released | Q2 2020 | Q1 2024 | 4 years newer on RTX 5880 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 5880 Ada 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 5880 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.37 | On-Demand $0.74 |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.54 | -- |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $1.00 | -- |
Thunder Compute
|
On-Demand $1.09 | -- |
Lium
|
On-Demand $1.23 | -- |
Verda
|
On-Demand $1.29 | -- |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $1.35 | -- |
Packet·ai
|
On-Demand $1.43 | -- |
44 providers list the A100 and 1 the RTX 5880 Ada. Every listing is on the A100 page and the RTX 5880 Ada page.
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Our data for Nvidia A100 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.