Nvidia A16 vs Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti

The RTX 3090 Ti has 50% more memory and 5x the bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

50% more on RTX 3090 Ti

A16: 16 GB

RTX 3090 Ti: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

5x higher on RTX 3090 Ti

A16: 200 GB/s

RTX 3090 Ti: 1,008 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

66% cheaper on RTX 3090 Ti

A16: $0.56 /GPU/hr

RTX 3090 Ti: $0.19 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A16	RTX 3090 Ti
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.56	$0.26 /GPU/hr from $0.19
Reserved	No reserved listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.22 (6 mo)
Spot	No spot listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.10

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 reserved and spot on the RTX 3090 Ti: 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 RTX 3090 Ti price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A16	RTX 3090 Ti	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6X	50% more on RTX 3090 Ti
Bandwidth	200 GB/s	1,008 GB/s	5x higher on RTX 3090 Ti
Bus width	128-bit	384-bit	3x wider on RTX 3090 Ti
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	17.9 TFLOPS	80 TFLOPS	4.5x higher on RTX 3090 Ti
INT8	35.9 TOPS	320 TOPS	8.9x higher on RTX 3090 Ti
FP32	4.5 TFLOPS	40 TFLOPS	8.9x higher on RTX 3090 Ti
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Released	Q2 2021	Q1 2022	12 months newer on RTX 3090 Ti
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: A16 datasheet and RTX 3090 Ti 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	RTX 3090 Ti
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	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.19 /GPU/hr On-demand
Vast.ai USA	--	$0.24 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand