Nvidia A5000 vs Nvidia RTX 5050

The A5000 has 3x the memory and 2.4x the bandwidth. The RTX 5050 is newer and cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on A5000

A5000: 24 GB

RTX 5050: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.4x higher on A5000

A5000: 768 GB/s

RTX 5050: 320 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

63% cheaper on RTX 5050

A5000: $0.19 /GPU/hr

RTX 5050: $0.07 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A5000	RTX 5050
On-demand	$1.24 /GPU/hr from $0.19	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.25 (24 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.09	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03

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 and spot on the RTX 5050: 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 RTX 5050 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A5000	RTX 5050	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	3x more on A5000
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	320 GB/s	2.4x higher on A5000
Bus width	384-bit	128-bit	3x wider on A5000
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	210.5 TFLOPS	RTX 5050 only
FP8	Not supported	52.6 TFLOPS	RTX 5050 only
FP16 / BF16	111.1 TFLOPS	26.3 TFLOPS	4.2x higher on A5000
INT8		105.3 TOPS
FP32	27.8 TFLOPS	13.2 TFLOPS	2.1x higher on A5000
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on A5000 only
Board power	230 W	130 W	77% higher on A5000
Released	Q2 2021	Q3 2025	4 years newer on RTX 5050
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: A5000 datasheet and RTX 5050 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	RTX 5050
Salad Distributed	$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.19 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$1.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$2.04 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Paperspace USA	$1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Database Mart USA	$0.25 /GPU/hr Reserved	--