Nvidia A40 vs Nvidia GB200

The GB200 is newer, with 3.9x the memory and 11x the bandwidth. The A40 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

3.9x more on GB200

A40: 48 GB

GB200: 186 GB

Memory bandwidth

11x higher on GB200

A40: 696 GB/s

GB200: 8,000 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

96% cheaper on A40

A40: $0.40 /GPU/hr

GB200: $10.50 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A40	GB200	Difference
On-demand	$0.65 /GPU/hr from $0.40	$16.00 /GPU/hr from $10.50	96% cheaper on A40
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.61 (24 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $10.58
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.27	-- /GPU/hr from $27.04

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 reserved and spot on the A40 and reserved and spot on the GB200: 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

A40 vs GB200 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A40	GB200	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	186 GB HBM3e	3.9x more on GB200
Bandwidth	696 GB/s	8,000 GB/s	11x higher on GB200
Bus width	384-bit
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	10,000 TFLOPS	GB200 only
FP8	Not supported	5,000 TFLOPS	GB200 only
FP16 / BF16	149.7 TFLOPS	2,500 TFLOPS	17x higher on GB200
INT8	299.3 TOPS	5,000 TOPS	17x higher on GB200
FP32	37.4 TFLOPS	80 TFLOPS	2.1x higher on GB200
FP64	Not supported	40 TFLOPS	GB200 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 1,800 GB/s	NVLink on GB200 only
Board power	300 W	1,200 W	4x higher on GB200
Released	Q4 2020	Q1 2024	3 years newer on GB200
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP6FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8

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

Source: A40 datasheet and GB200 datasheet.

Where to rent them

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

Provider	A40	GB200
Denvr Canada	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand	On request Custom
Vast.ai USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$2.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$2.42 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Database Mart USA	$0.61 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
CoreWeave USA	--	$10.50 /GPU/hr On-demand NVL
Oracle Cloud USA	--	$16.00 /GPU/hr On-demand NVL
Azure USA	--	$27.04 /GPU/hr On-demand
AWS USA	--	$10.58 /GPU/hr Reserved
CUDO UK	--	On request Custom NVL
Canopy Wave USA	--	On request Custom NVL
Crusoe USA	--	On request Custom NVL