Nvidia A40 vs Nvidia Vera Rubin

The Vera Rubin is newer, with 6x the memory and 28x the bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

6x more on Vera Rubin

A40: 48 GB

Vera Rubin: 288 GB

Memory bandwidth

28x higher on Vera Rubin

A40: 696 GB/s

Vera Rubin: 19,200 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

Vera Rubin is not sold on demand

A40: $0.59 /GPU/hr

Vera Rubin: --

Price comparison

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

Billing	A40	Vera Rubin	Difference
On-demand	$1.02 /GPU/hr from $0.59	No on-demand listings
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.61 (24 mo)	-- /GPU/hr

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 on the Vera Rubin: 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 Vera Rubin price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A40	Vera Rubin	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	288 GB HBM4	6x more on Vera Rubin
Bandwidth	696 GB/s	19,200 GB/s	28x higher on Vera Rubin
Bus width	384-bit
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	35,000 TFLOPS	Vera Rubin only
FP8	Not supported	17,500 TFLOPS	Vera Rubin only
FP16 / BF16	149.7 TFLOPS	4,000 TFLOPS	27x higher on Vera Rubin
INT8	299.3 TOPS	250 TOPS	20% higher on A40
FP32	37.4 TFLOPS	130 TFLOPS	3.5x higher on Vera Rubin
FP64	Not supported	33 TFLOPS	Vera Rubin only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 3,000 GB/s	NVLink on Vera Rubin only
Released	Q4 2020	Q1 2026	5 years newer on Vera Rubin
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP6FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8

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

Source: A40 datasheet and Vera Rubin 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	Vera Rubin
Runpod USA	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.60 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$2.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$2.66 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Denvr Canada	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
E2E Networks India	$1.02 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Database Mart USA	$0.61 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Impossible Cloud Germany	--	$11.05 /GPU/hr Reserved NVL
CUDO UK	--	On request Custom
CambridgeNexus USA	--	On request Custom NVL
Civo UK	--	On request Custom NVL
Crusoe USA	--	On request Custom NVL
Hyperstack UK	--	On request Custom NVL