Nvidia A16 vs Nvidia Vera Rubin

The Vera Rubin is newer, with 18x the memory and 96x the bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

18x more on Vera Rubin

A16: 16 GB

Vera Rubin: 288 GB

Memory bandwidth

96x higher on Vera Rubin

A16: 200 GB/s

Vera Rubin: 19,200 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

Vera Rubin is not sold on demand

A16: --

Vera Rubin: --

Price comparison

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

Billing	A16	Vera Rubin	Difference
On-demand	Sold out	No on-demand listings
Reserved	No reserved listings	-- /GPU/hr

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 reserved on the Vera Rubin: 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 Vera Rubin price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A16	Vera Rubin	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	288 GB HBM4	18x more on Vera Rubin
Bandwidth	200 GB/s	19,200 GB/s	96x higher on Vera Rubin
Bus width	128-bit
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	35,000 TFLOPS	Vera Rubin only
FP8	Not supported	17,500 TFLOPS	Vera Rubin only
FP16 / BF16	17.9 TFLOPS	4,000 TFLOPS	223x higher on Vera Rubin
INT8	35.9 TOPS	250 TOPS	7x higher on Vera Rubin
FP32	4.5 TFLOPS	130 TFLOPS	29x higher on Vera Rubin
FP64	Not supported	33 TFLOPS	Vera Rubin only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 3,000 GB/s	NVLink on Vera Rubin only
Released	Q2 2021	Q1 2026	5 years newer on Vera Rubin
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP6FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8

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

Source: A16 datasheet and Vera Rubin 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	Vera Rubin
Sesterce France	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Impossible Cloud Germany	--	$11.05 /GPU/hr Reserved NVL
CUDO UK	--	On request Custom
CambridgeNexus USA	--	On request Custom NVL
Civo UK	--	On request Custom NVL
Crusoe USA	--	On request Custom NVL
Hyperstack UK	--	On request Custom NVL