Two Nvidia data center GPUs, one Ampere and one Maxwell: 24 GB HBM2 against 8 GB GDDR5 and 5.8x the memory bandwidth on the A30.
At a glance
Updated 22 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 933 GB/s
- From
- $0.29 /GPU/hr
- 8 providers
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 160 GB/s
- From
- $0.75 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A30 | M60 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.29 | $0.75 | 2.6x more expensive on M60 |
| Reserved | $0.43 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.55 | $1.14 | 2.1x more expensive on M60 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A30 vs M60 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A30 | M60 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB HBM2 | 8 GB GDDR5 | 3x more on A30 |
| Bandwidth | 933 GB/s | 160 GB/s | 5.8x higher on A30 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | ||
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 165 TFLOPS | Not supported | A30 only |
| INT8 | 330 TOPS | Not supported | A30 only |
| FP32 | 10.3 TFLOPS | 4.8 TFLOPS | 2.1x higher on A30 |
| FP64 | 5.2 TFLOPS | Not supported | A30 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 165 W | 150 W | 1.1x higher on A30 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q3 2015 | 6 years newer on A30 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8 | FP32 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A30 datasheet and M60 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A30 /GPU/hr | M60 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.29 | -- |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $0.35 | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $0.55 | -- |
Leafcloud
|
On-Demand $0.70 | -- |
Exoscale
|
On-Demand $0.74 | -- |
Leaseweb
|
Reserved (1mo) $0.43 | -- |
AceCloud
|
Reserved (12mo) $0.67 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.39 | -- |
AWS
|
-- | On-Demand $0.75 |
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Our data for Nvidia A30 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia M60 on Sept. 7, 2026.