Two Nvidia workstation GPUs, one Ampere and one Pascal: 16 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB GDDR5X and 56% more memory bandwidth on the A4000.
At a glance
Updated 18 minutes ago- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.09 /GPU/hr
- 13 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR5X
- Memory bandwidth
- 288 GB/s
- From
- $0.78 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A4000 | P5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.09 | $0.78 | 8.9x more expensive on P5000 |
| Spot | $0.08 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.06 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.16 | $0.78 | 4.9x more expensive on P5000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A4000 vs P5000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A4000 | P5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR5X | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 448 GB/s | 288 GB/s | 1.6x higher on A4000 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 256-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 76.7 TFLOPS | ||
| FP32 | 19.2 TFLOPS | 8.9 TFLOPS | 2.2x higher on A4000 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 140 W | 180 W | 1.3x higher on P5000 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q4 2016 | 4 years newer on A4000 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A4000 datasheet and P5000 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A4000 /GPU/hr | P5000 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.09 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.10 | -- |
Spheron
|
On-Demand $0.16 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.16 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.16 | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $0.25 | -- |
Hyperstack
|
On-Demand $0.15 | -- |
TensorDock
|
On-Demand $0.21 | -- |
Paperspace
|
-- | On-Demand $0.78 |
13 providers list the A4000 and 1 the P5000. Every listing is on the A4000 page and the P5000 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A4000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia P5000 on Sept. 7, 2026.