A workstation GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Pascal: 12 GB GDDR6 against 8 GB GDDR5 and 13% more memory bandwidth on the RTX A2000.
At a glance
Updated 9 minutes ago- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 288 GB/s
- From
- $0.12 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- From
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX A2000 | GTX 1070 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.12 | $0.04 | 3x more expensive on RTX A2000 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.02 | |
| Median | $0.12 | $0.04 | 3x more expensive on RTX A2000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX A2000 vs GTX 1070 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX A2000 | GTX 1070 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 12 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR5 | 1.5x more on RTX A2000 |
| Bandwidth | 288 GB/s | 256 GB/s | 1.1x higher on RTX A2000 |
| Bus width | 192-bit | 256-bit | 1.3x wider on GTX 1070 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 31.9 TFLOPS | ||
| FP32 | 8 TFLOPS | 6.5 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on RTX A2000 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 70 W | 150 W | 2.1x higher on GTX 1070 |
| Released | Q3 2021 | Q2 2016 | 5 years newer on RTX A2000 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32 | |
Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX A2000 datasheet and GTX 1070 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX A2000 /GPU/hr | GTX 1070 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.12 | -- |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.0400 |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX A2000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia GTX 1070 on Sept. 7, 2026.