Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia A16

Purpose-built for virtual desktop (VDI) deployments.

Budget Datacenter

Nvidia logo Nvidia A5000

Mid-range professional GPU for visualization and AI development.

Mid-Range Workstation

Memory per GPU

1.5x more on A5000
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16 GB GDDR6
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24 GB GDDR6

Memory bandwidth

3.8x higher on A5000
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200 GB/s
Nvidia logo A5000
768 GB/s

GPU interconnect

Nvidia logo A16
PCIe only
Nvidia logo A5000
NVLink 112 GB/s

Peak performance (FP16)

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4x 36 TFLOPS
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222 TFLOPS

Vendor peak figures. Sparsity and tensor-core conventions differ between vendors.

Precision support

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FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8
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FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

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Ampere
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Ampere

Released

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Q2 2021
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Q2 2021

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

4.1x higher on A16
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$0.47 / GPU / hr
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$0.11 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

2.2x higher on A5000
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$0.56 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo A5000
$1.24 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Spot floor

Nvidia logo A16
No spot listings
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$0.17 / GPU / hr

Full price range

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$0.47 - $0.56 / GPU / hr
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$0.11 - $1.56 / GPU / hr

Lowest to highest listing per GPU-hour, across on-demand, spot, reserved and custom.

Providers listing it

8 more on A5000
Nvidia logo A16
3
Nvidia logo A5000
11

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

Offers and availability

How this list works

Order

Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
  3. Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.

The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.

Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.

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Our data for Nvidia A16 was last updated on Aug. 21, 2026, and for Nvidia A5000 on Aug. 21, 2026.