Nvidia A16 vs Nvidia P100

Both have 16 GB of memory. The P100 has 3.7x the bandwidth and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

A16: 16 GB

P100: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.7x higher on P100

A16: 200 GB/s

P100: 732 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

12% cheaper on P100

A16: $0.11 /GPU/hr

P100: $0.10 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A16	P100
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11	$1.39 /GPU/hr from $0.10
Reserved	No reserved listings	$1.04 /GPU/hr from $0.22 (24 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07	-- /GPU/hr from $0.08

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 and spot on the P100: 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 P100 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

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 that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	A16	P100
Vast.ai USA	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand
Vultr USA	$0.47 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Scaleway France	--	$1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand
Oracle Cloud USA	--	$1.27 /GPU/hr On-demand
Google Cloud USA	--	$1.51 /GPU/hr On-demand
Alibaba Cloud China	--	$1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	--	$0.22 /GPU/hr Reserved