Nvidia A16 vs Nvidia RTX PRO 5000

The RTX PRO 5000 is newer, with 3x the memory and 6.7x the bandwidth. The A16 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on RTX PRO 5000

A16: 16 GB

RTX PRO 5000: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

6.7x higher on RTX PRO 5000

A16: 200 GB/s

RTX PRO 5000: 1,344 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

19% cheaper on A16

A16: $0.47 /GPU/hr

RTX PRO 5000: $0.58 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A16	RTX PRO 5000
On-demand	$0.56 /GPU/hr from $0.47	-- /GPU/hr from $0.58
Reserved	No reserved listings	$0.93 /GPU/hr from $0.50 (24 mo)
Spot	No spot listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.16

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 and spot on the RTX PRO 5000: 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 PRO 5000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A16	RTX PRO 5000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	48 GB GDDR7	3x more on RTX PRO 5000
Bandwidth	200 GB/s	1,344 GB/s	6.7x higher on RTX PRO 5000
Bus width	128-bit	512-bit	4x wider on RTX PRO 5000
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	1,032 TFLOPS	RTX PRO 5000 only
FP8	Not supported	516 TFLOPS	RTX PRO 5000 only
FP16 / BF16	17.9 TFLOPS	258 TFLOPS	14x higher on RTX PRO 5000
INT8	35.9 TOPS	516 TOPS	14x higher on RTX PRO 5000
FP32	4.5 TFLOPS	65 TFLOPS	14x higher on RTX PRO 5000
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Released	Q2 2021	Q1 2025	4 years newer on RTX PRO 5000
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: A16 datasheet and RTX PRO 5000 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 PRO 5000
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	--	$0.58 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.82 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	--	$0.50 /GPU/hr Reserved
Contabo Germany	--	$1.08 /GPU/hr Reserved