Two Nvidia data center GPUs, one Ampere and one Pascal: 16 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB HBM2, 3.7x the memory bandwidth on the P100, and NVLink 160 GB/s on the P100 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
- 16 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 732 GB/s
- From
- $1.27 /GPU/hr
- 5 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A16 | P100 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.47 | $1.27 | 2.7x more expensive on P100 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.77 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.12 | |
| Median | $0.56 | $1.53 | 2.7x more expensive on P100 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A16 vs P100 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A16 | P100 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB HBM2 | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 200 GB/s | 732 GB/s | 3.7x higher on P100 |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 4,096-bit | 32x wider on P100 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 17.9 TFLOPS | 18.7 TFLOPS | Within 5% |
| INT8 | 35.9 TOPS | Not supported | A16 only |
| FP32 | 4.5 TFLOPS | 9.3 TFLOPS | 2.1x higher on P100 |
| FP64 | Not supported | 4.7 TFLOPS | P100 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 160 GB/s | NVLink on P100 only |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q2 2016 | 5 years newer on A16 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32FP64 | |
Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A16 datasheet and P100 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A16 /GPU/hr | P100 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vultr
|
On-Demand $0.47 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.56 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.56 | -- |
Scaleway
|
-- | On-Demand $1.42 |
Oracle Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $1.27 |
Google Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $1.51 |
Alibaba Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $1.55 |
Database Mart
|
-- | Reserved (24mo) $0.12 |
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Our data for Nvidia A16 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia P100 on Sept. 7, 2026.