Nvidia A16 vs Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000

The Quadro RTX 6000 has 50% more memory and 3.4x the bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

50% more on Quadro RTX 6000

A16: 16 GB

Quadro RTX 6000: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.4x higher on Quadro RTX 6000

A16: 200 GB/s

Quadro RTX 6000: 672 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

72% cheaper on Quadro RTX 6000

A16: $0.47 /GPU/hr

Quadro RTX 6000: $0.13 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A16	Quadro RTX 6000
On-demand	$0.56 /GPU/hr from $0.47	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13
Reserved	No reserved listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12 (12 mo)
Spot	No spot listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11

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, reserved and spot on the Quadro RTX 6000: 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 Quadro RTX 6000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A16	Quadro RTX 6000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6	50% more on Quadro RTX 6000
Bandwidth	200 GB/s	672 GB/s	3.4x higher on Quadro RTX 6000
Bus width	128-bit	384-bit	3x wider on Quadro RTX 6000
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	17.9 TFLOPS	130.5 TFLOPS	7.3x higher on Quadro RTX 6000
INT8	35.9 TOPS	261 TOPS	7.3x higher on Quadro RTX 6000
FP32	4.5 TFLOPS	16.3 TFLOPS	3.6x higher on Quadro RTX 6000
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 100 GB/s	NVLink on Quadro RTX 6000 only
Released	Q2 2021	Q3 2018	3 years newer on A16
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: A16 datasheet and Quadro RTX 6000 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	Quadro RTX 6000
Vultr USA	$0.47 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$0.67 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Vast.ai USA	--	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand
Akamai Cloud USA	--	$1.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lambda Labs USA	--	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand