Nvidia A16 vs Nvidia RTX 4000 SFF Ada

The RTX 4000 SFF Ada is newer, with 25% more memory and 40% more bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

25% more on RTX 4000 SFF Ada

A16: 16 GB

RTX 4000 SFF Ada: 20 GB

Memory bandwidth

40% higher on RTX 4000 SFF Ada

A16: 200 GB/s

RTX 4000 SFF Ada: 280 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

A16: --

RTX 4000 SFF Ada: $0.42 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A16	RTX 4000 SFF Ada	Difference
On-demand	Sold out	-- /GPU/hr from $0.42

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 RTX 4000 SFF Ada: 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 4000 SFF Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A16	RTX 4000 SFF Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	20 GB GDDR6	25% more on RTX 4000 SFF Ada
Bandwidth	200 GB/s	280 GB/s	40% higher on RTX 4000 SFF Ada
Bus width	128-bit	160-bit	25% wider on RTX 4000 SFF Ada
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	153.4 TFLOPS	RTX 4000 SFF Ada only
FP16 / BF16	17.9 TFLOPS	76.7 TFLOPS	4.3x higher on RTX 4000 SFF Ada
INT8	35.9 TOPS
FP32	4.5 TFLOPS	19.2 TFLOPS	4.3x higher on RTX 4000 SFF Ada
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Released	Q2 2021	Q2 2023	2 years newer on RTX 4000 SFF Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: A16 datasheet and RTX 4000 SFF Ada 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 4000 SFF Ada
Vultr USA	$0.47 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Hetzner Germany	--	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand
Koyeb France	--	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.18 /GPU/hr On-demand