Nvidia A100 vs Nvidia RTX PRO 6000

The RTX PRO 6000 is newer and has 20% more memory, while the A100 has 21% more bandwidth. The A100 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

20% more on RTX PRO 6000

A100: 80 GB

RTX PRO 6000: 96 GB

Memory bandwidth

21% higher on A100

A100: 1.94 TB/s

RTX PRO 6000: 1.60 TB/s

Cheapest on-demand

42% cheaper on A100

A100: $0.37 /GPU/hr

RTX PRO 6000: $0.65 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A100	RTX PRO 6000	Difference
On-demand	$1.88 /GPU/hr from $0.37	$2.19 /GPU/hr from $0.65	14% cheaper on A100
Reserved	$1.67 /GPU/hr from $0.59 (1 mo)	$1.90 /GPU/hr from $0.48 (1 mo)	12% cheaper on A100
Spot	$0.86 /GPU/hr from $0.27	$1.29 /GPU/hr from $0.34	34% cheaper on A100

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 PRO 6000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A100	RTX PRO 6000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe	96 GB GDDR7	20% more on RTX PRO 6000
Bandwidth	1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe	1,597 GB/s	21% higher on A100
Bus width	5,120-bit	512-bit	10x wider on A100
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	2,000 TFLOPS	RTX PRO 6000 only
FP8	Not supported	1,000 TFLOPS	RTX PRO 6000 only
FP16 / BF16	312 TFLOPS	500 TFLOPS	60% higher on RTX PRO 6000
INT8	624 TOPS	1,000 TOPS	60% higher on RTX PRO 6000
FP32	19.5 TFLOPS	120 TFLOPS	6.2x higher on RTX PRO 6000
FP64	9.7 TFLOPS	Not supported	A100 only
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 600 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on A100 only
Board power	300 W	600 W	2x higher on RTX PRO 6000
Released	Q2 2020	Q1 2025	5 years newer on RTX PRO 6000
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 6000 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	A100	RTX PRO 6000
Vast.ai USA	$0.37 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	$1.07 /GPU/hr On-demand
Packet·ai USA	$1.43 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.66 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.54 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.69 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lium Distributed	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	$1.29 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	$1.69 /GPU/hr On-demand
Thunder Compute USA	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Massed Compute USA	$1.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$1.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
HyperAI Hong Kong	--	$0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPUhub Singapore	--	$1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand
UpCloud Finland	--	$1.88 /GPU/hr On-demand