Nvidia A40 vs Nvidia H100

The H100 is newer, with 67% more memory and 4.8x the bandwidth. The A40 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

67% more on H100

A40: 48 GB

H100: 80 GB

Memory bandwidth

4.8x higher on H100

A40: 696 GB/s

H100: 3,350 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

50% cheaper on A40

A40: $0.65 /GPU/hr

H100: $1.30 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A40	H100	Difference
On-demand	$1.05 /GPU/hr from $0.65	$3.39 /GPU/hr from $1.30	69% cheaper on A40
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.61 (24 mo)	$3.09 /GPU/hr from $1.53 (1 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.33	$2.21 /GPU/hr from $1.07

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: 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 H100 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A40	H100	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	80 GB HBM3 94 GB on NVL	67% more on H100
Bandwidth	696 GB/s	3,350 GB/s 2,000 GB/s on PCIe 3,938 GB/s on NVL	4.8x higher on H100
Bus width	384-bit	5,120-bit	13x wider on H100
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	1,979 TFLOPS	H100 only
FP16 / BF16	149.7 TFLOPS	989.5 TFLOPS	6.6x higher on H100
INT8	299.3 TOPS	1,979 TOPS	6.6x higher on H100
FP32	37.4 TFLOPS	67 TFLOPS	79% higher on H100
FP64	Not supported	34 TFLOPS	H100 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 900 GB/s NVLink 600 GB/s on PCIe, NVL	NVLink on H100 only
Board power	300 W	700 W	2.3x higher on H100
Released	Q4 2020	Q3 2022	2 years newer on H100
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8

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 H100 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	H100
Vast.ai USA	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM
Sesterce France	$2.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$2.05 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Denvr Canada	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Database Mart USA	$0.61 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Utho India	$0.64 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Runpod USA	On request Reserved	--
Lium Distributed	--	$1.30 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM
HyperAI Hong Kong	--	$1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$1.98 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
EmpirioLabs AI USA	--	$2.60 /GPU/hr On-demand
Spheron Singapore	--	$2.64 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Jarvislabs India	--	$2.69 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM
Massed Compute USA	--	$2.73 /GPU/hr On-demand