Nvidia A5000 vs Nvidia P40

The A5000 is newer and has 2.2x the bandwidth, with the same 24 GB of memory.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

A5000: 24 GB

P40: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.2x higher on A5000

A5000: 768 GB/s

P40: 346 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

A5000: $0.25 /GPU/hr

P40: --

Price comparison

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

Billing	A5000	P40
On-demand	$1.31 /GPU/hr from $0.25	No on-demand listings
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.24 (24 mo)	No reserved listings
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 reserved and 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 P40 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 14 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A5000	P40	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR5	Identical
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	346 GB/s	2.2x higher on A5000
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	111.1 TFLOPS
INT8		47 TOPS
FP32	27.8 TFLOPS	12 TFLOPS	2.3x higher on A5000
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on A5000 only
Board power	230 W	250 W	9% higher on P40
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 P40 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	P40
Salad Distributed	$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.27 /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	--