A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 24 GB HBM2 against 48 GB GDDR6 and memory bandwidth within 5%.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 933 GB/s
- From
- $0.29 /GPU/hr
- 8 providers
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.55 /GPU/hr
- 14 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A30 | RTX 6000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.29 | $0.55 | 47% cheaper on A30 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.37 | |
| Reserved | $0.43 | $0.56 | 23% cheaper on A30 |
| Median | $0.55 | $0.96 | 43% cheaper on A30 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A30 vs RTX 6000 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A30 | RTX 6000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB HBM2 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 2x more on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 933 GB/s | 960 GB/s | Within 5% |
| Bus width | 384-bit | ||
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 728.5 TFLOPS | RTX 6000 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 165 TFLOPS | 364.2 TFLOPS | 2.2x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| INT8 | 330 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 10.3 TFLOPS | 91.1 TFLOPS | 8.8x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| FP64 | 5.2 TFLOPS | Not supported | A30 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 165 W | 300 W | 1.8x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q4 2022 | 2 years newer on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A30 datasheet and RTX 6000 Ada datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A30 /GPU/hr | RTX 6000 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.29 | On-Demand $0.65 |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $0.35 | On-Demand $0.79 |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $0.55 | On-Demand $1.10 |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.39 | On-Demand $1.07 |
Leafcloud
|
On-Demand $0.70 | -- |
Exoscale
|
On-Demand $0.74 | -- |
Leaseweb
|
Reserved (1mo) $0.43 | -- |
AceCloud
|
Reserved (12mo) $0.67 | -- |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.55 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.60 |
Runcrate
|
-- | On-Demand $1.07 |
TensorDock
|
-- | On-Demand $0.86 |
8 providers list the A30 and 14 the RTX 6000 Ada. Every listing is on the A30 page and the RTX 6000 Ada page.
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Our data for Nvidia A30 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.