Nvidia A40 vs Nvidia P2000

The A40 is newer, with 9.6x the memory and 5x the bandwidth. The P2000 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

9.6x more on A40

A40: 48 GB

P2000: 5 GB

Memory bandwidth

5x higher on A40

A40: 696 GB/s

P2000: 140 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

96% cheaper on P2000

A40: $0.65 /GPU/hr

P2000: $0.03 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A40	P2000
On-demand	$1.05 /GPU/hr from $0.65	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.61 (24 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.33	No spot listings

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 on-demand on the P2000: 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 P2000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A40	P2000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	5 GB GDDR5	9.6x more on A40
Bandwidth	696 GB/s	140 GB/s	5x higher on A40
Bus width	384-bit	160-bit	2.4x wider on A40
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	149.7 TFLOPS
INT8	299.3 TOPS	Not supported	A40 only
FP32	37.4 TFLOPS	3 TFLOPS	12x higher on A40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	75 W	4x higher on A40
Released	Q4 2020	Q1 2017	4 years newer on A40
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32

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

Source: A40 datasheet and P2000 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	P2000
Vast.ai USA	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.0282 /GPU/hr On-demand
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	--
Runpod USA	On request Reserved	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$1.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	--