Nvidia A30 vs Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada

The A30 has 20% more memory and 2.6x the bandwidth. The RTX 4000 Ada is newer and typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

20% more on A30

A30: 24 GB

RTX 4000 Ada: 20 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.6x higher on A30

A30: 933 GB/s

RTX 4000 Ada: 360 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

51% cheaper on RTX 4000 Ada

A30: $0.41 /GPU/hr

RTX 4000 Ada: $0.20 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A30	RTX 4000 Ada	Difference
On-demand	$0.69 /GPU/hr from $0.41	$0.51 /GPU/hr from $0.20	26% cheaper on RTX 4000 Ada
Reserved	$0.58 /GPU/hr from $0.38 (12 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.18 (3 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13

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 reserved and spot on the RTX 4000 Ada: 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 RTX 4000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A30	RTX 4000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB HBM2	20 GB GDDR6	20% more on A30
Bandwidth	933 GB/s	360 GB/s	2.6x higher on A30
Bus width		160-bit
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	213.8 TFLOPS	RTX 4000 Ada only
FP16 / BF16	165 TFLOPS	106.9 TFLOPS	54% higher on A30
INT8	330 TOPS
FP32	10.3 TFLOPS	26.7 TFLOPS	2.6x higher on RTX 4000 Ada
FP64	5.2 TFLOPS	Not supported	A30 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	165 W	130 W	27% higher on A30
Released	Q2 2021	Q3 2023	2 years newer on RTX 4000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: A30 datasheet and RTX 4000 Ada datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	A30	RTX 4000 Ada
Sesterce France	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.87 /GPU/hr On-demand
Jarvislabs India	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Leafcloud Netherlands	$0.69 /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	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Vast.ai USA	--	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.28 /GPU/hr On-demand
Akamai Cloud USA	--	$0.52 /GPU/hr On-demand
DigitalOcean USA	--	$0.76 /GPU/hr On-demand