Nvidia A5000 vs Nvidia H100

The H100 is newer, with 3.3x the memory and 4.4x the bandwidth. The A5000 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

3.3x more on H100

A5000: 24 GB

H100: 80 GB

Memory bandwidth

4.4x higher on H100

A5000: 768 GB/s

H100: 3,350 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

82% cheaper on A5000

A5000: $0.23 /GPU/hr

H100: $1.30 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A5000	H100	Difference
On-demand	$1.24 /GPU/hr from $0.23	$3.39 /GPU/hr from $1.30	63% cheaper on A5000
Reserved	$0.35 /GPU/hr from $0.19 (6 mo)	$3.03 /GPU/hr from $1.53 (1 mo)	88% cheaper on A5000
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.09	$2.23 /GPU/hr from $0.41

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: 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 H100 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A5000	H100	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	80 GB HBM3 94 GB on NVL	3.3x more on H100
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	3,350 GB/s 2,000 GB/s on PCIe 3,938 GB/s on NVL	4.4x higher on H100
Bus width	384-bit	5,120-bit	13x wider on H100
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	1,979 TFLOPS	H100 only
FP16 / BF16	111.1 TFLOPS	989.5 TFLOPS	8.9x higher on H100
INT8		1,979 TOPS
FP32	27.8 TFLOPS	67 TFLOPS	2.4x higher on H100
FP64	Not supported	34 TFLOPS	H100 only
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	NVLink 900 GB/s NVLink 600 GB/s on PCIe, NVL	8x higher on H100
Board power	230 W	700 W	3x higher on H100
Released	Q2 2021	Q3 2022	17 months newer on H100
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

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

Source: A5000 datasheet and H100 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	H100
Vast.ai USA	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM
GPU.ai UAE	$0.24 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.98 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Salad Distributed	$0.25 /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	--
Database Mart USA	$0.25 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Lium Distributed	--	$1.30 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM
HyperAI Hong Kong	--	$1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand
Hyperstack UK	--	$2.50 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Runpod USA	--	$2.59 /GPU/hr On-demand NVL
EmpirioLabs AI USA	--	$2.60 /GPU/hr On-demand
Spheron Singapore	--	$2.64 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe