Nvidia A40 vs Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada

The A40 has 2x the memory and 61% more bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on A40

A40: 48 GB

RTX 4500 Ada: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

61% higher on A40

A40: 696 GB/s

RTX 4500 Ada: 432 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

A40: $0.59 /GPU/hr

RTX 4500 Ada: --

Price comparison

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

Billing	A40	RTX 4500 Ada	Difference
On-demand	$0.85 /GPU/hr from $0.59	No on-demand listings
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.61 (24 mo)	No reserved 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 on the A40: 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 4500 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A40	RTX 4500 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6	2x more on A40
Bandwidth	696 GB/s	432 GB/s	61% higher on A40
Bus width	384-bit	192-bit	2x wider on A40
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	317 TFLOPS	RTX 4500 Ada only
FP16 / BF16	149.7 TFLOPS	158.5 TFLOPS	6% higher on RTX 4500 Ada
INT8	299.3 TOPS
FP32	37.4 TFLOPS	39.6 TFLOPS	6% higher on RTX 4500 Ada
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	210 W	43% higher on A40
Released	Q4 2020	Q3 2023	3 years newer on RTX 4500 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: A40 datasheet and RTX 4500 Ada datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	A40	RTX 4500 Ada
GPU.ai UAE	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.59 /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	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$1.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	--