A workstation GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 24 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB GDDR7, 25% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 5080, and NVLink 112 GB/s on the A5000 where the RTX 5080 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 4 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 768 GB/s
- From
- $0.18 /GPU/hr
- 13 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.12 /GPU/hr
- 5 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A5000 | RTX 5080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.18 | $0.12 | 33% cheaper on RTX 5080 |
| Spot | $0.09 | $0.14 | 34% cheaper on A5000 |
| Reserved | $0.23 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.75 | $0.31 | 2.4x 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 5080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A5000 | RTX 5080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR7 | 1.5x more on A5000 |
| Bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 1.2x higher on RTX 5080 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 256-bit | 1.5x wider on A5000 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 900.4 TFLOPS | RTX 5080 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 225.1 TFLOPS | RTX 5080 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 111.1 TFLOPS | 112.6 TFLOPS | Within 5% |
| INT8 | 450.2 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 27.8 TFLOPS | 56.3 TFLOPS | 2x higher on RTX 5080 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 112 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on A5000 only |
| Board power | 230 W | 360 W | 1.6x higher on RTX 5080 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q1 2025 | 4 years newer on RTX 5080 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A5000 datasheet and RTX 5080 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 5080 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.18 | On-Demand $0.16 |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.25 | On-Demand $0.42 |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.27 | On-Demand $0.39 |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.25 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $1.56 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $1.56 | -- |
Exoscale
|
On-Demand $1.14 | -- |
Paperspace
|
On-Demand $1.38 | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.12 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $0.31 |
13 providers list the A5000 and 5 the RTX 5080. Every listing is on the A5000 page and the RTX 5080 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A5000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5080 on Sept. 7, 2026.