A workstation GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Turing: 24 GB GDDR6 against 6 GB GDDR6, 2.3x the memory bandwidth on the A5000, and NVLink 112 GB/s on the A5000 where the RTX 2060 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 768 GB/s
- From
- $0.25 /GPU/hr
- 11 providers
- Memory
- 6 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 336 GB/s
- From
- $0.05 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A5000 | RTX 2060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.25 | $0.05 | 5x more expensive on A5000 |
| Spot | $0.09 | $0.02 | 4.5x more expensive on A5000 |
| Reserved | $0.25 | $0.17 | 33% cheaper on RTX 2060 |
| Median | $1.38 | $0.05 | 28x more expensive on A5000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A5000 vs RTX 2060 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A5000 | RTX 2060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6 | 6 GB GDDR6 | 4x more on A5000 |
| Bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 336 GB/s | 2.3x higher on A5000 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 192-bit | 2x wider on A5000 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 111.1 TFLOPS | 25.8 TFLOPS | 4.3x higher on A5000 |
| INT8 | 103.2 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 27.8 TFLOPS | 6.5 TFLOPS | 4.3x higher on A5000 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 112 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on A5000 only |
| Board power | 230 W | 160 W | 1.4x higher on A5000 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q1 2019 | 2 years newer on A5000 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
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 RTX 2060 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A5000 /GPU/hr | RTX 2060 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.25 | On-Demand $0.05 |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.25 | Reserved (24mo) $0.17 |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $1.56 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $1.56 | -- |
Exoscale
|
On-Demand $1.14 | -- |
Paperspace
|
On-Demand $1.38 | -- |
Utho
|
Reserved (36mo) $0.29 | -- |
Cirrascale
|
Reserved (12mo) $0.42 | -- |
11 providers list the A5000 and 2 the RTX 2060. Every listing is on the A5000 page and the RTX 2060 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A5000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 2060 on Sept. 7, 2026.