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A40 vs GTX 1060

Nvidia A40 vs Nvidia GTX 1060

A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Pascal: 48 GB GDDR6 against 6 GB GDDR5 and 3.6x the memory bandwidth on the A40.

At a glance

Memory

A40: 48 GB
GTX 1060: 6 GB

8x more on A40

Memory bandwidth

A40: 696 GB/s
GTX 1060: 192 GB/s

3.6x higher on A40

Cheapest on-demand

A40: $0.49 /GPU/hr
GTX 1060: $0.03 /GPU/hr

16x more expensive on A40

Price comparison

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

Billing	A40	GTX 1060
On-demand	$0.49 /GPU/hr from $0.49	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.61 (24 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	No spot listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.02

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 and on-demand and spot on the GTX 1060: 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 GTX 1060 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A40	GTX 1060	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	6 GB GDDR5	8x more on A40
Bandwidth	696 GB/s	192 GB/s	3.6x higher on A40
Bus width	384-bit	192-bit	2x wider on A40
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	149.7 TFLOPS
INT8	299.3 TOPS	Not supported	A40 only
FP32	37.4 TFLOPS	4.4 TFLOPS	8.6x higher on A40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	120 W	2.5x higher on A40
Released	Q4 2020	Q3 2016	4 years newer on A40
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

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

Source: A40 datasheet and GTX 1060 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider	A40 /GPU/hr	GTX 1060 /GPU/hr
GPU.ai	On-Demand $0.49	--
Runpod	On-Demand $0.49	--
Exoscale	On-Demand $1.05	--
Database Mart	Reserved (24mo) $0.61	--
Utho	Reserved (36mo) $0.65	--
Sesterce	On-Demand $1.21	--
EmpirioLabs AI	On-Demand $1.49	--
Salad	--	On-Demand $0.0300
Vast.ai	--	On-Demand $0.34