The B300 is newer, with 18x the memory and 40x the bandwidth. The A16 is cheaper right now.
At a glance
Memory
18x more on B300
- A16
- 16 GB
- B300
- 288 GB
Memory bandwidth
40x higher on B300
- A16
- 200 GB/s
- B300
- 8,000 GB/s
Cheapest on-demand
98% cheaper on A16
- A16
- $0.11 /GPU/hr
- B300
- $4.99 /GPU/hr
Price comparison
Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.
| Billing | A16 | B300 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | -- /GPU/hr from $0.11 | $8.25 /GPU/hr from $4.99 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $6.50 /GPU/hr from $4.25 | |
| Spot | -- /GPU/hr from $0.07 | $4.87 /GPU/hr from $2.99 |
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. No median for on-demand and spot on the A16: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
Price history
A16 vs B300 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A16 | B300 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB GDDR6 | 288 GB HBM3e | 18x more on B300 |
| Bandwidth | 200 GB/s | 8,000 GB/s | 40x higher on B300 |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 8,192-bit | 64x wider on B300 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 14,000 TFLOPS | B300 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 4,500 TFLOPS | B300 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 17.9 TFLOPS | 2,250 TFLOPS | 126x higher on B300 |
| INT8 | 35.9 TOPS | 153.5 TOPS | 4.3x higher on B300 |
| FP32 | 4.5 TFLOPS | 75 TFLOPS | 17x higher on B300 |
| FP64 | Not supported | 1.2 TFLOPS | B300 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 1,800 GB/s | NVLink on B300 only |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q1 2025 | 4 years newer on B300 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP6FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A16 datasheet and B300 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 | A16 | B300 |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
USA
|
$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- |
Vultr
USA
|
$0.47 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- |
Sesterce
France
|
$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- |
Daytona
USA
|
-- | $7.10 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Lium
Distributed
|
-- | $7.85 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM |
GPU.ai
UAE
|
-- | $7.89 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM |
Runpod
USA
|
-- | $7.89 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM |
Lyceum
Germany
|
-- | $7.99 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Verda
Finland
|
-- | $8.71 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM |
EmpirioLabs AI
USA
|
-- | $15.70 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Spheron
Singapore
|
-- | $5.81 /GPU/hr Spot SXM |
3 providers list the A16 and 33 the B300. Every listing is on the A16 page and the B300 page.
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Nvidia H100
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Nvidia B200
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Our data for Nvidia A16 was last updated on Sept. 14, 2026, and for Nvidia B300 on Sept. 14, 2026.