Nvidia A40 vs Nvidia RTX 2070

The A40 is newer, with 6x the memory and 55% more bandwidth. The RTX 2070 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

6x more on A40

A40: 48 GB

RTX 2070: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

55% higher on A40

A40: 696 GB/s

RTX 2070: 448 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

85% cheaper on RTX 2070

A40: $0.40 /GPU/hr

RTX 2070: $0.06 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A40	RTX 2070	Difference
On-demand	$0.85 /GPU/hr from $0.40	$0.07 /GPU/hr from $0.06	92% cheaper on RTX 2070
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.61 (24 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.27	-- /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 and spot on the A40 and spot on the RTX 2070: 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 RTX 2070 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A40	RTX 2070	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	6x more on A40
Bandwidth	696 GB/s	448 GB/s	55% higher on A40
Bus width	384-bit	256-bit	50% wider on A40
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	149.7 TFLOPS	29.9 TFLOPS	5x higher on A40
INT8	299.3 TOPS	119.4 TOPS	2.5x higher on A40
FP32	37.4 TFLOPS	7.5 TFLOPS	5x higher on A40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	175 W	71% higher on A40
Released	Q4 2020	Q4 2018	2 years newer on A40
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: A40 datasheet and RTX 2070 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	RTX 2070
Vast.ai USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /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	--
Database Mart USA	$0.61 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Runpod USA	On request Reserved	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.06 /GPU/hr On-demand
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand