A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 48 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB GDDR6X and memory bandwidth within 5%.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 696 GB/s
- From
- $0.49 /GPU/hr
- 7 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 672 GB/s
- From
- $0.12 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A40 | RTX 4070 Ti Super | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.49 | $0.12 | 3.9x more expensive on A40 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.09 | |
| Reserved | $0.61 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.49 | $0.26 | 47% cheaper on RTX 4070 Ti Super |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A40 vs RTX 4070 Ti Super price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A40 | RTX 4070 Ti Super | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6X | 3x more on A40 |
| Bandwidth | 696 GB/s | 672 GB/s | Within 5% |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 256-bit | 1.5x wider on A40 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 176.4 TFLOPS | RTX 4070 Ti Super only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 149.7 TFLOPS | 88.2 TFLOPS | 1.7x higher on A40 |
| INT8 | 299.3 TOPS | 352.8 TOPS | 1.2x higher on RTX 4070 Ti Super |
| FP32 | 37.4 TFLOPS | 44.1 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on RTX 4070 Ti Super |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 300 W | 285 W | 1.1x higher on A40 |
| Released | Q4 2020 | Q1 2024 | 3 years newer on RTX 4070 Ti Super |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A40 datasheet and RTX 4070 Ti Super datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A40 /GPU/hr | RTX 4070 Ti Super /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.49 | -- |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.49 | -- |
Exoscale
|
On-Demand $1.05 | -- |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.61 | -- |
Utho
|
Reserved (36mo) $0.65 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $1.21 | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $1.49 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.12 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.26 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.46 |
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Our data for Nvidia A40 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super on Sept. 7, 2026.