A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Turing: 48 GB GDDR6 against 4 GB GDDR5 and 5.4x the memory bandwidth on the A40.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 696 GB/s
- From
- $0.49 /GPU/hr
- 7 providers
- Memory
- 4 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 128 GB/s
- From
- $0.02 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A40 | GTX 1650 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.49 | $0.02 | 24x more expensive on A40 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.01 | |
| Reserved | $0.61 | $0.14 | 4.4x more expensive on A40 |
| Median | $0.49 | $0.02 | 24x more expensive on A40 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A40 vs GTX 1650 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A40 | GTX 1650 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 4 GB GDDR5 | 12x more on A40 |
| Bandwidth | 696 GB/s | 128 GB/s | 5.4x higher on A40 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 128-bit | 3x wider on A40 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 149.7 TFLOPS | 6.0 TFLOPS | 25x higher on A40 |
| INT8 | 299.3 TOPS | Not supported | A40 only |
| FP32 | 37.4 TFLOPS | 3.0 TFLOPS | 13x higher on A40 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 300 W | 75 W | 4x higher on A40 |
| Released | Q4 2020 | Q2 2019 | 17 months newer on A40 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A40 datasheet and GTX 1650 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 1650 /GPU/hr |
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Reserved (24mo) $0.61 | Reserved (24mo) $0.14 |
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On-Demand $0.49 | -- |
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On-Demand $0.49 | -- |
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On-Demand $1.05 | -- |
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Reserved (36mo) $0.65 | -- |
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On-Demand $1.21 | -- |
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On-Demand $1.49 | -- |
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-- | On-Demand $0.0200 |
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Our data for Nvidia A40 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia GTX 1650 on Sept. 7, 2026.