Nvidia A40 vs Nvidia GH200

The GH200 is newer, with 2x the memory and 5.7x the bandwidth. The A40 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on GH200

A40: 48 GB

GH200: 96 GB

Memory bandwidth

5.7x higher on GH200

A40: 696 GB/s

GH200: 4,000 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

74% cheaper on A40

A40: $0.59 /GPU/hr

GH200: $2.29 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A40	GH200	Difference
On-demand	$0.85 /GPU/hr from $0.59	$2.98 /GPU/hr from $2.29	72% cheaper on A40
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.61 (24 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	No spot listings	Sold out

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 on the A40: 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 GH200 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A40	GH200	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	96 GB HBM3	2x more on GH200
Bandwidth	696 GB/s	4,000 GB/s	5.7x higher on GH200
Bus width	384-bit
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	1,979 TFLOPS	GH200 only
FP16 / BF16	149.7 TFLOPS	989.5 TFLOPS	6.6x higher on GH200
INT8	299.3 TOPS	1,979 TOPS	6.6x higher on GH200
FP32	37.4 TFLOPS	67 TFLOPS	79% higher on GH200
FP64	Not supported	34 TFLOPS	GH200 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 900 GB/s	NVLink on GH200 only
Released	Q4 2020	Q2 2023	3 years newer on GH200
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8

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

Source: A40 datasheet and GH200 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	GH200
Sesterce France	$2.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	$2.52 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	$2.42 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	$2.98 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM
Denvr Canada	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand	$3.87 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Database Mart USA	$0.61 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$1.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lambda Labs USA	--	$2.29 /GPU/hr On-demand
CoreWeave USA	--	$6.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Vultr USA	--	$1.99 /GPU/hr Spot