Nvidia A40 vs Nvidia RTX PRO 5000

The RTX PRO 5000 is newer and has 93% more bandwidth, with the same 48 GB of memory. The A40 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

A40: 48 GB

RTX PRO 5000: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

93% higher on RTX PRO 5000

A40: 696 GB/s

RTX PRO 5000: 1,344 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

33% cheaper on A40

A40: $0.40 /GPU/hr

RTX PRO 5000: $0.60 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A40	RTX PRO 5000
On-demand	$0.65 /GPU/hr from $0.40	-- /GPU/hr from $0.60
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.61 (24 mo)	$0.91 /GPU/hr from $0.50 (24 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.27	-- /GPU/hr from $0.22

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 PRO 5000: 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 PRO 5000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A40	RTX PRO 5000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	48 GB GDDR7	Identical
Bandwidth	696 GB/s	1,344 GB/s	93% higher on RTX PRO 5000
Bus width	384-bit	512-bit	33% wider on RTX PRO 5000
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	1,032 TFLOPS	RTX PRO 5000 only
FP8	Not supported	516 TFLOPS	RTX PRO 5000 only
FP16 / BF16	149.7 TFLOPS	258 TFLOPS	72% higher on RTX PRO 5000
INT8	299.3 TOPS	516 TOPS	72% higher on RTX PRO 5000
FP32	37.4 TFLOPS	65 TFLOPS	74% higher on RTX PRO 5000
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	300 W	Identical
Released	Q4 2020	Q1 2025	4 years newer on RTX PRO 5000
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: A40 datasheet and RTX PRO 5000 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 PRO 5000
Vast.ai USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.60 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.82 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	$0.61 /GPU/hr Reserved	$0.50 /GPU/hr Reserved
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /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	--
Contabo Germany	--	$1.09 /GPU/hr Reserved