Nvidia A5000 vs Nvidia P4

The A5000 is newer, with 3x the memory and 4x the bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on A5000

A5000: 24 GB

P4: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

4x higher on A5000

A5000: 768 GB/s

P4: 192 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

62% cheaper on A5000

A5000: $0.25 /GPU/hr

P4: $0.65 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A5000	P4
On-demand	$1.38 /GPU/hr from $0.25	-- /GPU/hr from $0.65
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.24 (24 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.34 (36 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.09	-- /GPU/hr from $0.10

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 reserved and spot on the A5000 and on-demand, reserved and spot on the P4: 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 P4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A5000	P4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR5	3x more on A5000
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	192 GB/s	4x higher on A5000
Bus width	384-bit	256-bit	50% wider on A5000
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	111.1 TFLOPS
INT8		22 TOPS
FP32	27.8 TFLOPS	5.5 TFLOPS	5.1x higher on A5000
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on A5000 only
Board power	230 W	75 W	3.1x higher on A5000
Released	Q2 2021	Q3 2016	5 years newer on A5000
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT8

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

Source: A5000 datasheet and P4 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	A5000	P4
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	$0.24 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Cirrascale USA	$0.42 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Runpod USA	On request Reserved	--
Google Cloud USA	--	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand