Nvidia A40 vs Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti

The A40 is newer, with 4.4x the memory and 13% more bandwidth. The RTX 2080 Ti is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

4.4x more on A40

A40: 48 GB

RTX 2080 Ti: 11 GB

Memory bandwidth

13% higher on A40

A40: 696 GB/s

RTX 2080 Ti: 616 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

67% cheaper on RTX 2080 Ti

A40: $0.28 /GPU/hr

RTX 2080 Ti: $0.09 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A40	RTX 2080 Ti
On-demand	$0.65 /GPU/hr from $0.28	-- /GPU/hr from $0.09
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.61 (24 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.27	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04

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 and spot on the RTX 2080 Ti: 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 2080 Ti price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A40	RTX 2080 Ti	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	11 GB GDDR6	4.4x more on A40
Bandwidth	696 GB/s	616 GB/s	13% higher on A40
Bus width	384-bit	352-bit	9% wider on A40
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	149.7 TFLOPS	53.8 TFLOPS	2.8x higher on A40
INT8	299.3 TOPS	215.2 TOPS	39% higher on A40
FP32	37.4 TFLOPS	13.4 TFLOPS	2.8x higher on A40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 100 GB/s	NVLink on RTX 2080 Ti only
Board power	300 W	250 W	20% higher on A40
Released	Q4 2020	Q3 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 2080 Ti 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 2080 Ti
Vast.ai USA	$0.28 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.09 /GPU/hr On-demand
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	--
Database Mart USA	$0.61 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand