A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 16 GB GDDR6 against 32 GB GDDR7 and 9x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 5090.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 200 GB/s
- From
- $0.47 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
- Memory
- 32 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.79 TB/s
- From
- $0.35 /GPU/hr
- 20 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A16 | RTX 5090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.47 | $0.35 | 26% cheaper on RTX 5090 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.20 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.21 | |
| Median | $0.56 | $0.68 | 17% cheaper on A16 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A16 vs RTX 5090 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A16 | RTX 5090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB GDDR6 | 32 GB GDDR7 | 2x more on RTX 5090 |
| Bandwidth | 200 GB/s | 1,792 GB/s | 9x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 512-bit | 4x wider on RTX 5090 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 1,676 TFLOPS | RTX 5090 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 419 TFLOPS | RTX 5090 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 17.9 TFLOPS | 209.5 TFLOPS | 12x higher on RTX 5090 |
| INT8 | 35.9 TOPS | 838 TOPS | 23x higher on RTX 5090 |
| FP32 | 4.5 TFLOPS | 104.8 TFLOPS | 23x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q1 2025 | 4 years newer on RTX 5090 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A16 datasheet and RTX 5090 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A16 /GPU/hr | RTX 5090 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vultr
|
On-Demand $0.47 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.56 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.56 | -- |
HyperAI
|
-- | On-Demand $0.35 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.45 |
GPUhub
|
-- | On-Demand $0.46 |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.50 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.51 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.52 |
Nova Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.63 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.82 |
3 providers list the A16 and 20 the RTX 5090. Every listing is on the A16 page and the RTX 5090 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A16 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5090 on Sept. 7, 2026.