Two Nvidia data center GPUs, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 16 GB GDDR6 against 180 GB HBM3e, 38x the memory bandwidth on the B200, and NVLink 1,800 GB/s on the B200 where the A16 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 200 GB/s
- From
- $0.47 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
- Memory
- 180 GB
- HBM3e
- Memory bandwidth
- 7.70 TB/s
- From
- $3.75 /GPU/hr
- 35 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A16 | B200 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.47 | $3.75 | 8x more expensive on B200 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $3.12 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $3.75 | |
| Median | $0.56 | $6.83 | 12x more expensive on B200 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A16 vs B200 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A16 | B200 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB GDDR6 | 180 GB HBM3e | 11x more on B200 |
| Bandwidth | 200 GB/s | 7,700 GB/s | 38x higher on B200 |
| Bus width | 128-bit | ||
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 9,000 TFLOPS | B200 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 4,500 TFLOPS | B200 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 17.9 TFLOPS | 2,250 TFLOPS | 126x higher on B200 |
| INT8 | 35.9 TOPS | 4,500 TOPS | 125x higher on B200 |
| FP32 | 4.5 TFLOPS | 75 TFLOPS | 17x higher on B200 |
| FP64 | Not supported | 37 TFLOPS | B200 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 1,800 GB/s | NVLink on B200 only |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q1 2024 | 3 years newer on B200 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP6FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A16 datasheet and B200 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A16 /GPU/hr | B200 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vultr
|
On-Demand $0.47 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.56 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.56 | -- |
Packet·ai
|
-- | On-Demand $3.75 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $5.31 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $5.40 |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $5.50 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $6.79 |
Spheron
|
-- | On-Demand $7.20 |
Oblivus
|
-- | On-Demand $8.40 |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
-- | On-Demand $9.00 |
3 providers list the A16 and 35 the B200. Every listing is on the A16 page and the B200 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A16 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia B200 on Sept. 7, 2026.