Nvidia A30 vs Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000

The A30 is newer and has 39% more bandwidth, with the same 24 GB of memory. The Quadro RTX 6000 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

A30: 24 GB

Quadro RTX 6000: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

39% higher on A30

A30: 933 GB/s

Quadro RTX 6000: 672 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

67% cheaper on Quadro RTX 6000

A30: $0.41 /GPU/hr

Quadro RTX 6000: $0.13 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A30	Quadro RTX 6000
On-demand	$0.69 /GPU/hr from $0.41	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13
Reserved	$0.58 /GPU/hr from $0.38 (12 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12 (12 mo)
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 and reserved on the Quadro RTX 6000: 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 Quadro RTX 6000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A30	Quadro RTX 6000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB HBM2	24 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	933 GB/s	672 GB/s	39% higher on A30
Bus width		384-bit
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	165 TFLOPS	130.5 TFLOPS	26% higher on A30
INT8	330 TOPS	261 TOPS	26% higher on A30
FP32	10.3 TFLOPS	16.3 TFLOPS	58% higher on Quadro RTX 6000
FP64	5.2 TFLOPS	Not supported	A30 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 100 GB/s	NVLink on Quadro RTX 6000 only
Board power	165 W	295 W	79% higher on Quadro RTX 6000
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 Quadro RTX 6000 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	Quadro RTX 6000
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	--	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand
Akamai Cloud USA	--	$1.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lambda Labs USA	--	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand