Nvidia A40 vs Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada

The RTX 6000 Ada is newer and has 38% more bandwidth, with the same 48 GB of memory. The A40 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

A40: 48 GB

RTX 6000 Ada: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

38% higher on RTX 6000 Ada

A40: 696 GB/s

RTX 6000 Ada: 960 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

9% cheaper on A40

A40: $0.59 /GPU/hr

RTX 6000 Ada: $0.65 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A40	RTX 6000 Ada	Difference
On-demand	$0.62 /GPU/hr from $0.59	$0.99 /GPU/hr from $0.65	37% cheaper on A40
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.61 (24 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.65 (12 mo)
Spot	No spot listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.39

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 and reserved and spot on the RTX 6000 Ada: 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 6000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A40	RTX 6000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	48 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	696 GB/s	960 GB/s	38% higher on RTX 6000 Ada
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	728.5 TFLOPS	RTX 6000 Ada only
FP16 / BF16	149.7 TFLOPS	364.2 TFLOPS	2.4x higher on RTX 6000 Ada
INT8	299.3 TOPS
FP32	37.4 TFLOPS	91.1 TFLOPS	2.4x higher on RTX 6000 Ada
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	300 W	Identical
Released	Q4 2020	Q4 2022	2 years newer on RTX 6000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: A40 datasheet and RTX 6000 Ada 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 6000 Ada
GPU.ai UAE	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.99 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	$1.21 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.07 /GPU/hr On-demand
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$1.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Denvr Canada	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Database Mart USA	$0.61 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Lium Distributed	--	$0.75 /GPU/hr On-demand
Novita USA	--	$0.77 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	--	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	--	$1.26 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe