Nvidia A30 vs Nvidia RTX 5000

The A30 is newer, with 50% more memory and 2.1x the bandwidth. The RTX 5000 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

50% more on A30

A30: 24 GB

RTX 5000: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.1x higher on A30

A30: 933 GB/s

RTX 5000: 448 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

77% cheaper on RTX 5000

A30: $0.41 /GPU/hr

RTX 5000: $0.09 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A30	RTX 5000	Difference
On-demand	$0.69 /GPU/hr from $0.41	$0.60 /GPU/hr from $0.09	13% cheaper on RTX 5000
Reserved	$0.58 /GPU/hr from $0.38 (12 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29	-- /GPU/hr from $0.05

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 spot on the RTX 5000: 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 5000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A30	RTX 5000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB HBM2	16 GB GDDR6	50% more on A30
Bandwidth	933 GB/s	448 GB/s	2.1x higher on A30
Bus width		256-bit
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	165 TFLOPS	89.2 TFLOPS	85% higher on A30
INT8	330 TOPS	178.4 TOPS	85% higher on A30
FP32	10.3 TFLOPS	11.2 TFLOPS	9% higher on RTX 5000
FP64	5.2 TFLOPS	Not supported	A30 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 50 GB/s	NVLink on RTX 5000 only
Board power	165 W	265 W	61% higher on RTX 5000
Released	Q2 2021	Q3 2018	3 years newer on A30
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: A30 datasheet and RTX 5000 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	RTX 5000
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	--	$0.09 /GPU/hr On-demand
OVH France	--	$0.60 /GPU/hr On-demand
Paperspace USA	--	$0.82 /GPU/hr On-demand