Nvidia A100 vs Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada

The A100 has 67% more memory and 2x the bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

67% more on A100

A100: 80 GB

RTX 5880 Ada: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

2x higher on A100

A100: 1,935 GB/s

RTX 5880 Ada: 960 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

A100: $1.07 /GPU/hr

RTX 5880 Ada: --

Price comparison

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

Billing	A100	RTX 5880 Ada
On-demand	$1.80 /GPU/hr from $1.07	No on-demand listings
Reserved	$1.60 /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 5880 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A100	RTX 5880 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe	48 GB GDDR6	67% 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	13% 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	5% 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 that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	A100	RTX 5880 Ada
GPU.ai UAE	$1.07 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Thunder Compute USA	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$1.19 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Hyperstack UK	$1.35 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Massed Compute USA	$1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Packet·ai USA	$1.43 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Oblivus USA	$1.47 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Spheron Singapore	$1.48 /GPU/hr On-demand	--