A workstation GPU against a data center card, one Ampere and one Hopper: 24 GB GDDR6 against 80 GB HBM2e and 2.6x the memory bandwidth on the H800.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 768 GB/s
- From
- $0.25 /GPU/hr
- 11 providers
- Memory
- 80 GB
- HBM2e
- Memory bandwidth
- 2.00 TB/s
- From
- --
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A5000 | H800 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.25 | -- | |
| Spot | $0.09 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.25 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.38 | -- |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A5000 vs H800 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A5000 | H800 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6 | 80 GB HBM2e | 3.3x more on H800 |
| Bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 2,000 GB/s | 2.6x higher on H800 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 5,120-bit | 13x wider on H800 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 1,513 TFLOPS | H800 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 111.1 TFLOPS | 756.5 TFLOPS | 6.8x higher on H800 |
| INT8 | 1,513 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 27.8 TFLOPS | 51 TFLOPS | 1.8x higher on H800 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 112 GB/s | NVLink 400 GB/s | 3.6x higher on H800 |
| Board power | 230 W | 350 W | 1.5x higher on H800 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q1 2023 | 2 years newer on H800 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A5000 datasheet .
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A5000 /GPU/hr | H800 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
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 | -- |
Utho
|
Reserved (36mo) $0.29 | -- |
Cirrascale
|
Reserved (12mo) $0.42 | -- |
11 providers list the A5000 and 0 the H800. Every listing is on the A5000 page and the H800 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A5000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia H800 on Sept. 7, 2026.