Nvidia A16 vs Nvidia RTX PRO 6000

The RTX PRO 6000 is newer, with 6x the memory and 8x the bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

6x more on RTX PRO 6000

A16: 16 GB

RTX PRO 6000: 96 GB

Memory bandwidth

8x higher on RTX PRO 6000

A16: 200 GB/s

RTX PRO 6000: 1,597 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

A16: --

RTX PRO 6000: $0.65 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A16	RTX PRO 6000
On-demand	Sold out	$2.32 /GPU/hr from $0.65
Reserved	No reserved listings	$2.00 /GPU/hr from $0.48 (1 mo)
Spot	No spot listings	$1.35 /GPU/hr from $0.66

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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

A16 vs RTX PRO 6000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 13 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A16	RTX PRO 6000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	96 GB GDDR7	6x more on RTX PRO 6000
Bandwidth	200 GB/s	1,597 GB/s	8x higher on RTX PRO 6000
Bus width	128-bit	512-bit	4x wider on RTX PRO 6000
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	2,000 TFLOPS	RTX PRO 6000 only
FP8	Not supported	1,000 TFLOPS	RTX PRO 6000 only
FP16 / BF16	17.9 TFLOPS	500 TFLOPS	28x higher on RTX PRO 6000
INT8	35.9 TOPS	1,000 TOPS	28x higher on RTX PRO 6000
FP32	4.5 TFLOPS	120 TFLOPS	27x higher on RTX PRO 6000
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Released	Q2 2021	Q1 2025	4 years newer on RTX PRO 6000
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: A16 datasheet and RTX PRO 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	RTX PRO 6000
Sesterce France	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Packet·ai USA	--	$0.66 /GPU/hr On-demand
HyperAI Hong Kong	--	$0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPUhub Singapore	--	$1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$1.69 /GPU/hr On-demand
Nova Cloud Canada	--	$1.74 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
UpCloud Finland	--	$1.88 /GPU/hr On-demand
EcoHash USA	--	$1.89 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Cloudzy UAE	--	$1.93 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe