Nvidia A5000 vs Nvidia K80

The A5000 is newer, with 2x the memory and 3.2x the bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on A5000

A5000: 24 GB

K80: 12 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.2x higher on A5000

A5000: 768 GB/s

K80: 240 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

74% cheaper on A5000

A5000: $0.23 /GPU/hr

K80: $0.90 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A5000	K80
On-demand	$1.24 /GPU/hr from $0.23	-- /GPU/hr from $0.90
Reserved	$0.35 /GPU/hr from $0.23 (1 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04 (24 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.09	No spot listings

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 and reserved on the K80: 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 K80 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A5000	K80	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR5	2x more on A5000
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	240 GB/s	3.2x higher on A5000
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	111.1 TFLOPS	Not supported	A5000 only
FP32	27.8 TFLOPS	4.4 TFLOPS	6.4x higher on A5000
FP64	Not supported	1.5 TFLOPS	K80 only
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on A5000 only
Board power	230 W	150 W	53% higher on A5000
Released	Q2 2021	Q4 2014	6 years newer on A5000
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP32FP64

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

Source: A5000 datasheet and K80 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	K80
Database Mart USA	$0.25 /GPU/hr Reserved	$0.0447 /GPU/hr Reserved
Vast.ai USA	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.24 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
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	--
AWS USA	--	$0.90 /GPU/hr On-demand