Nvidia A16 vs Nvidia P40

The P40 has 50% more memory and 73% more bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

50% more on P40

A16: 16 GB

P40: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

73% higher on P40

A16: 200 GB/s

P40: 346 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

81% cheaper on P40

A16: $0.56 /GPU/hr

P40: $0.11 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A16	P40	Difference
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.56	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11
Spot	No spot listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07

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 A16 and on-demand and spot on the P40: 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 P40 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 13 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A16	P40	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR5	50% more on P40
Bandwidth	200 GB/s	346 GB/s	73% higher on P40
Bus width	128-bit	384-bit	3x wider on P40
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	17.9 TFLOPS
INT8	35.9 TOPS	47 TOPS	31% higher on P40
FP32	4.5 TFLOPS	12 TFLOPS	2.7x higher on P40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Released	Q2 2021	Q3 2016	5 years newer on A16
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT8

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

Source: A16 datasheet and P40 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	P40
Sesterce France	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$0.67 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Vultr USA	$0.47 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Vast.ai USA	--	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand