The GB300 is newer, with 18x the memory and 40x the bandwidth. The A16 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

18x more on GB300

A16
16 GB
GB300
288 GB

Memory bandwidth

40x higher on GB300

A16
200 GB/s
GB300
8,000 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

97% cheaper on A16

A16
$0.47 /GPU/hr
GB300
$18.00 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing A16 GB300 Difference
On-demand $0.56 /GPU/hr from $0.47 -- /GPU/hr from $18.00
Reserved No reserved listings On request
Spot No spot listings Sold out

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 on the GB300: 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 GB300 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months
Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec A16 GB300 Difference
Memory
Capacity 16 GB GDDR6 288 GB HBM3e 18x more on GB300
Bandwidth 200 GB/s 8,000 GB/s 40x higher on GB300
Bus width 128-bit 8,192-bit 64x wider on GB300
Compute · dense
FP4 Not supported 15,000 TFLOPS GB300 only
FP8 Not supported 5,000 TFLOPS GB300 only
FP16 / BF16 17.9 TFLOPS 2,500 TFLOPS 140x higher on GB300
INT8 35.9 TOPS 165 TOPS 4.6x higher on GB300
FP32 4.5 TFLOPS 80 TFLOPS 18x higher on GB300
FP64 Not supported 1.3 TFLOPS GB300 only
Platform
Interconnect PCIe only NVLink 1,800 GB/s NVLink on GB300 only
Released Q2 2021 Q1 2025 4 years newer on GB300
Precision
Supported formats FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 FP4FP6FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: A16 datasheet and GB300 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

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Our data for Nvidia A16 was last updated on Sept. 14, 2026, and for Nvidia GB300 on Sept. 14, 2026.