A workstation GPU against a consumer card on the Ampere architecture: 24 GB GDDR6 against 12 GB GDDR6X, 19% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 3080 Ti, and NVLink 112 GB/s on the A5000 where the RTX 3080 Ti is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 768 GB/s
- From
- $0.23 /GPU/hr
- 13 providers
- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 912 GB/s
- From
- $0.12 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A5000 | RTX 3080 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.23 | $0.12 | 47% cheaper on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Spot | $0.09 | $0.08 | 11% cheaper on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Reserved | $0.18 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.24 | $0.19 | 6.5x 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 3080 Ti price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A5000 | RTX 3080 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6 | 12 GB GDDR6X | 2x more on A5000 |
| Bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 912 GB/s | 1.2x higher on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 384-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 111.1 TFLOPS | 68.2 TFLOPS | 1.6x higher on A5000 |
| INT8 | 272.8 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 27.8 TFLOPS | 34.1 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 112 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on A5000 only |
| Board power | 230 W | 350 W | 1.5x higher on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q2 2021 | |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A5000 datasheet and RTX 3080 Ti 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 3080 Ti /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.23 | On-Demand $0.12 |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.25 | On-Demand $0.20 |
Exoscale
|
On-Demand $1.14 | On-Demand $0.79 |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.24 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $1.56 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $1.56 | -- |
Paperspace
|
On-Demand $1.38 | -- |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.25 | -- |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.18 |
13 providers list the A5000 and 4 the RTX 3080 Ti. Every listing is on the A5000 page and the RTX 3080 Ti page.
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Our data for Nvidia A5000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti on Sept. 7, 2026.