Nvidia A5000 vs Nvidia GTX 1660

The A5000 is newer, with 4x the memory and 4x the bandwidth. The GTX 1660 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

4x more on A5000

A5000: 24 GB

GTX 1660: 6 GB

Memory bandwidth

4x higher on A5000

A5000: 768 GB/s

GTX 1660: 192 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

83% cheaper on GTX 1660

A5000: $0.23 /GPU/hr

GTX 1660: $0.04 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A5000	GTX 1660
On-demand	$1.24 /GPU/hr from $0.23	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04
Reserved	$0.35 /GPU/hr from $0.23 (1 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.19 (24 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.09	-- /GPU/hr from $0.02

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 spot on the A5000 and on-demand, reserved and spot on the GTX 1660: 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

A5000 vs GTX 1660 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A5000	GTX 1660	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	6 GB GDDR5	4x more on A5000
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	192 GB/s	4x higher on A5000
Bus width	384-bit	192-bit	2x wider on A5000
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	111.1 TFLOPS	10.1 TFLOPS	11x higher on A5000
FP32	27.8 TFLOPS	5.0 TFLOPS	5.5x higher on A5000
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on A5000 only
Board power	230 W	120 W	92% higher on A5000
Released	Q2 2021	Q1 2019	2 years newer on A5000
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32

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

Source: A5000 datasheet and GTX 1660 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	A5000	GTX 1660
Vast.ai USA	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.0400 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	$0.25 /GPU/hr Reserved	$0.19 /GPU/hr Reserved
GPU.ai UAE	$0.24 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$1.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$1.85 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Paperspace USA	$1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand	--