Nvidia A40 vs Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti

The A40 has 3x the memory and 36% more bandwidth. The RTX 5060 Ti is newer and typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on A40

A40: 48 GB

RTX 5060 Ti: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

36% higher on A40

A40: 696 GB/s

RTX 5060 Ti: 512 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

72% cheaper on RTX 5060 Ti

A40: $0.40 /GPU/hr

RTX 5060 Ti: $0.11 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A40	RTX 5060 Ti	Difference
On-demand	$0.65 /GPU/hr from $0.40	$0.15 /GPU/hr from $0.11	77% cheaper on RTX 5060 Ti
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.61 (24 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11 (48 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.27	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07

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 reserved and spot on the RTX 5060 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 5060 Ti price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A40	RTX 5060 Ti	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR7	3x more on A40
Bandwidth	696 GB/s	512 GB/s	36% higher on A40
Bus width	384-bit	128-bit	3x wider on A40
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	379.5 TFLOPS	RTX 5060 Ti only
FP8	Not supported	94.8 TFLOPS	RTX 5060 Ti only
FP16 / BF16	149.7 TFLOPS	47.4 TFLOPS	3.2x higher on A40
INT8	299.3 TOPS	189.6 TOPS	58% higher on A40
FP32	37.4 TFLOPS	23.7 TFLOPS	58% higher on A40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	180 W	67% higher on A40
Released	Q4 2020	Q2 2025	4 years newer on RTX 5060 Ti
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

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

Source: A40 datasheet and RTX 5060 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 5060 Ti
Vast.ai USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /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	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	--	$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand