A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 80 GB HBM2e against 32 GB GDDR7, 2.2x the memory bandwidth on the A100, and NVLink 600 GB/s on the A100 where the RTX PRO 4500 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 7 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
- 32 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 896 GB/s
- From
- $0.72 /GPU/hr
- 5 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A100 | RTX PRO 4500 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.89 | $0.72 | 19% cheaper on RTX PRO 4500 |
| Spot | $0.68 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.56 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.81 | $0.92 | 49% cheaper on RTX PRO 4500 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A100 vs RTX PRO 4500 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A100 | RTX PRO 4500 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe | 32 GB GDDR7 | 2.5x more on A100 |
| Bandwidth | 1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe | 896 GB/s | 2.2x higher on A100 |
| Bus width | 5,120-bit | 256-bit | 20x wider on A100 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 808.5 TFLOPS | RTX PRO 4500 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 404.3 TFLOPS | RTX PRO 4500 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 312 TFLOPS | 202.1 TFLOPS | 1.5x higher on A100 |
| INT8 | 624 TOPS | 404.3 TOPS | 1.5x higher on A100 |
| FP32 | 19.5 TFLOPS | 51 TFLOPS | 2.6x higher on RTX PRO 4500 |
| FP64 | 9.7 TFLOPS | Not supported | A100 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 600 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on A100 only |
| Board power | 300 W | 200 W | 1.5x higher on A100 |
| Released | Q2 2020 | Q1 2025 | 5 years newer on RTX PRO 4500 |
| 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 PRO 4500 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 PRO 4500 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.89 | On-Demand $0.72 |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $1.39 | On-Demand $0.72 |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $1.35 | On-Demand $0.92 |
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.91 | -- |
Thunder Compute
|
On-Demand $1.09 | -- |
Packet·ai
|
On-Demand $1.43 | -- |
Spheron
|
On-Demand $1.43 | -- |
Oblivus
|
On-Demand $1.47 | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
-- | On-Demand $1.40 |
AWS
|
-- | On-Demand $2.52 |
43 providers list the A100 and 5 the RTX PRO 4500. Every listing is on the A100 page and the RTX PRO 4500 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A100 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX PRO 4500 on Sept. 7, 2026.