Nvidia A30 vs Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada

The RTX 5000 Ada is newer and has 33% more memory, while the A30 has 62% more bandwidth. The A30 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

33% more on RTX 5000 Ada

A30: 24 GB

RTX 5000 Ada: 32 GB

Memory bandwidth

62% higher on A30

A30: 933 GB/s

RTX 5000 Ada: 576 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

16% cheaper on A30

A30: $0.41 /GPU/hr

RTX 5000 Ada: $0.49 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A30	RTX 5000 Ada
On-demand	$0.69 /GPU/hr from $0.41	-- /GPU/hr from $0.49
Reserved	$0.58 /GPU/hr from $0.38 (12 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29	No spot listings

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 on the RTX 5000 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 5000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A30	RTX 5000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB HBM2	32 GB GDDR6	33% more on RTX 5000 Ada
Bandwidth	933 GB/s	576 GB/s	62% higher on A30
Bus width		256-bit
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	522.2 TFLOPS	RTX 5000 Ada only
FP16 / BF16	165 TFLOPS	261.1 TFLOPS	58% higher on RTX 5000 Ada
INT8	330 TOPS
FP32	10.3 TFLOPS	65.3 TFLOPS	6.3x higher on RTX 5000 Ada
FP64	5.2 TFLOPS	Not supported	A30 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	165 W	250 W	52% higher on RTX 5000 Ada
Released	Q2 2021	Q3 2023	2 years newer on RTX 5000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: A30 datasheet and RTX 5000 Ada 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 Ada
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	--
Runpod USA	--	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand