Nvidia A30 vs Nvidia P40

The A30 is newer and has 2.7x the bandwidth, with the same 24 GB of memory. The P40 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

A30: 24 GB

P40: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.7x higher on A30

A30: 933 GB/s

P40: 346 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

74% cheaper on P40

A30: $0.41 /GPU/hr

P40: $0.11 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A30	P40
On-demand	$0.69 /GPU/hr from $0.41	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11
Reserved	$0.58 /GPU/hr from $0.38 (12 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07

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 spot on the A30 and on-demand and spot on the P40: 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

A30 vs P40 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 13 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A30	P40	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB HBM2	24 GB GDDR5	Identical
Bandwidth	933 GB/s	346 GB/s	2.7x higher on A30
Bus width		384-bit
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	165 TFLOPS
INT8	330 TOPS	47 TOPS	7x higher on A30
FP32	10.3 TFLOPS	12 TFLOPS	17% higher on P40
FP64	5.2 TFLOPS	Not supported	A30 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	165 W	250 W	52% higher on P40
Released	Q2 2021	Q3 2016	5 years newer on A30
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT8

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

Source: A30 datasheet and P40 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	A30	P40
Jarvislabs India	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Leafcloud Netherlands	$0.68 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$0.74 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Leaseweb Netherlands	$0.45 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
AceCloud India	$0.67 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Massed Compute USA	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Vast.ai USA	--	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand