A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 16 GB GDDR6 against 48 GB GDDR6 and 4.8x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 5880 Ada.
At a glance
Updated 3 minutes ago- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 200 GB/s
- From
- $0.47 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.74 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A16 | RTX 5880 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.47 | $0.74 | 36% cheaper on A16 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.30 | |
| Median | $0.56 | $0.74 | 24% 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 5880 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A16 | RTX 5880 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB GDDR6 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 3x more on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 200 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 4.8x higher on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 384-bit | 3x wider on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 554.2 TFLOPS | RTX 5880 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 17.9 TFLOPS | 277.1 TFLOPS | 15x higher on RTX 5880 Ada |
| INT8 | 35.9 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 4.5 TFLOPS | 69.3 TFLOPS | 15x higher on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q1 2024 | 3 years newer on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A16 datasheet and RTX 5880 Ada 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 5880 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vultr
|
On-Demand $0.47 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.56 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.56 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.74 |
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Our data for Nvidia A16 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.