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Nvidia A16 vs Nvidia K80

Two Nvidia data center GPUs, one Ampere and one Kepler: 16 GB GDDR6 against 12 GB GDDR5 and 20% more memory bandwidth on the K80.

At a glance

Updated 6 minutes ago

Nvidia A16

Memory: 16 GB; GDDR6
Memory bandwidth: 200 GB/s
From: $0.47 /GPU/hr; 3 providers

Nvidia K80

Memory: 12 GB; GDDR5
Memory bandwidth: 240 GB/s
From: $0.90 /GPU/hr; 2 providers

Price comparison

Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.

Billing	A16	K80	Difference
On-demand	$0.47	$0.90	48% cheaper on A16
Reserved	No reserved listings	$0.04
Median	$0.56	$0.90	38% cheaper on A16

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

Price history

A16 vs K80 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A16	K80	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR5	1.3x more on A16
Bandwidth	200 GB/s	240 GB/s	1.2x higher on K80
Bus width	128-bit	384-bit	3x wider on K80
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	17.9 TFLOPS	Not supported	A16 only
INT8	35.9 TOPS	Not supported	A16 only
FP32	4.5 TFLOPS	4.4 TFLOPS	Within 5%
FP64	Not supported	1.5 TFLOPS	K80 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Released	Q2 2021	Q4 2014	6 years newer on A16
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP32FP64

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

Source: A16 datasheet and K80 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider	A16 /GPU/hr	K80 /GPU/hr
Vultr	On-Demand $0.47	--
Runcrate	On-Demand $0.56	--
Sesterce	On-Demand $0.56	--
AWS	--	On-Demand $0.90
Database Mart	--	Reserved (24mo) $0.0447

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Our data for Nvidia A16 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia K80 on Sept. 7, 2026.