A workstation GPU against a data center card, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 24 GB GDDR6 against 180 GB HBM3e and 10x the memory bandwidth on the B200.
At a glance
Updated 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 768 GB/s
- From
- $0.23 /GPU/hr
- 13 providers
- Memory
- 180 GB
- HBM3e
- Memory bandwidth
- 7.70 TB/s
- From
- $3.75 /GPU/hr
- 35 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A5000 | B200 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.23 | $3.75 | 16x more expensive on B200 |
| Spot | $0.09 | $3.95 | 44x more expensive on B200 |
| Reserved | $0.18 | $3.75 | 21x more expensive on B200 |
| Median | $1.24 | $6.71 | 5.4x more expensive on B200 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A5000 vs B200 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A5000 | B200 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6 | 180 GB HBM3e | 7.5x more on B200 |
| Bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 7,700 GB/s | 10x higher on B200 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | ||
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 9,000 TFLOPS | B200 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 4,500 TFLOPS | B200 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 111.1 TFLOPS | 2,250 TFLOPS | 20x higher on B200 |
| INT8 | 4,500 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 27.8 TFLOPS | 75 TFLOPS | 2.7x higher on B200 |
| FP64 | Not supported | 37 TFLOPS | B200 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 112 GB/s | NVLink 1,800 GB/s | 16x higher on B200 |
| Board power | 230 W | 1,000 W | 4.3x higher on B200 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q1 2024 | 3 years newer on B200 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP6FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A5000 datasheet and B200 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A5000 /GPU/hr | B200 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.23 | On-Demand $6.63 |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.24 | On-Demand $5.40 |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.25 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $1.56 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $1.56 | -- |
Exoscale
|
On-Demand $1.14 | -- |
Paperspace
|
On-Demand $1.38 | -- |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.25 | -- |
Packet·ai
|
-- | On-Demand $3.75 |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $5.60 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $6.79 |
Spheron
|
-- | On-Demand $7.20 |
Oblivus
|
-- | On-Demand $8.40 |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
-- | On-Demand $9.00 |
13 providers list the A5000 and 35 the B200. Every listing is on the A5000 page and the B200 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A5000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia B200 on Sept. 7, 2026.