A workstation GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 16 GB GDDR6 against 12 GB GDDR7 and 50% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 5070.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.15 /GPU/hr
- 11 providers
- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 672 GB/s
- From
- $0.24 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A4000 | RTX 5070 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.15 | $0.24 | 38% cheaper on A4000 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.08 | |
| Reserved | $0.11 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.21 | $0.28 | 26% cheaper on A4000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A4000 vs RTX 5070 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A4000 | RTX 5070 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB GDDR6 | 12 GB GDDR7 | 1.3x more on A4000 |
| Bandwidth | 448 GB/s | 672 GB/s | 1.5x higher on RTX 5070 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 192-bit | 1.3x wider on A4000 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 493.9 TFLOPS | RTX 5070 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 123.5 TFLOPS | RTX 5070 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 76.7 TFLOPS | 61.7 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on A4000 |
| INT8 | 246.9 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 19.2 TFLOPS | 30.9 TFLOPS | 1.6x higher on RTX 5070 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 140 W | 250 W | 1.8x higher on RTX 5070 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q1 2025 | 4 years newer on RTX 5070 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A4000 datasheet and RTX 5070 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A4000 /GPU/hr | RTX 5070 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.17 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.88 | -- |
Hyperstack
|
On-Demand $0.15 | -- |
TensorDock
|
On-Demand $0.21 | -- |
Paperspace
|
On-Demand $0.76 | -- |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.17 | -- |
Cirrascale
|
Reserved (12mo) $0.28 | -- |
Runpod
|
Reservation on request | -- |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.24 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.33 |
11 providers list the A4000 and 2 the RTX 5070. Every listing is on the A4000 page and the RTX 5070 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A4000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5070 on Sept. 7, 2026.