Nvidia A16 vs Nvidia P5000

The P5000 has 44% more bandwidth, with the same 16 GB of memory. The A16 is newer and cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

A16: 16 GB

P5000: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

44% higher on P5000

A16: 200 GB/s

P5000: 288 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

28% cheaper on A16

A16: $0.56 /GPU/hr

P5000: $0.78 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A16	P5000	Difference
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.56	-- /GPU/hr from $0.78

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 on the P5000: 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 P5000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A16	P5000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR5X	Identical
Bandwidth	200 GB/s	288 GB/s	44% higher on P5000
Bus width	128-bit	256-bit	2x wider on P5000
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	17.9 TFLOPS
INT8	35.9 TOPS	Not supported	A16 only
FP32	4.5 TFLOPS	8.9 TFLOPS	98% higher on P5000
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Released	Q2 2021	Q4 2016	4 years newer on A16
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32

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

Source: A16 datasheet and P5000 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	P5000
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	--
Paperspace USA	--	$0.78 /GPU/hr On-demand