Nvidia A40 vs Nvidia P100

The A40 is newer and has 3x the memory, while the P100 has 5% more bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on A40

A40: 48 GB

P100: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

5% higher on P100

A40: 696 GB/s

P100: 732 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

66% cheaper on P100

A40: $0.28 /GPU/hr

P100: $0.10 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A40	P100	Difference
On-demand	$0.65 /GPU/hr from $0.28	$1.39 /GPU/hr from $0.10	53% cheaper on A40
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.61 (24 mo)	$1.04 /GPU/hr from $0.22 (24 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.27	-- /GPU/hr from $0.08

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 spot on the P100: 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 P100 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A40	P100	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	16 GB HBM2	3x more on A40
Bandwidth	696 GB/s	732 GB/s	5% higher on P100
Bus width	384-bit	4,096-bit	11x wider on P100
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	149.7 TFLOPS	18.7 TFLOPS	8x higher on A40
INT8	299.3 TOPS	Not supported	A40 only
FP32	37.4 TFLOPS	9.3 TFLOPS	4x higher on A40
FP64	Not supported	4.7 TFLOPS	P100 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 160 GB/s	NVLink on P100 only
Board power	300 W	250 W	20% higher on A40
Released	Q4 2020	Q2 2016	4 years newer on A40
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32FP64

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 P100 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	P100
Vast.ai USA	$0.28 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	$0.61 /GPU/hr Reserved	$0.22 /GPU/hr Reserved
GPU.ai UAE	$0.49 /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	--
Denvr Canada	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Scaleway France	--	$1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand
Oracle Cloud USA	--	$1.27 /GPU/hr On-demand
Google Cloud USA	--	$1.51 /GPU/hr On-demand
Alibaba Cloud China	--	$1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand