Overview
Nvidia A5000
The Nvidia A5000 is a workstation GPU on the Ampere architecture, released Q2 2021, with 24 GB GDDR6 and 768 GB/s memory bandwidth.
Nvidia RTX 5090
The Nvidia RTX 5090 is a consumer GPU on the Blackwell architecture, released Q1 2025, with 32 GB GDDR7 and 1,792 GB/s memory bandwidth.
Memory per GPU
1.3x more on RTX 5090
A5000
RTX 5090
Memory bandwidth
2.3x higher on RTX 5090
A5000
RTX 5090
GPU interconnect
A5000
RTX 5090
Peak performance (FP16)
1.9x higher on RTX 5090
A5000
RTX 5090
Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
FP16 per watt
1.3x higher on A5000
A5000
RTX 5090
Board power
2.5x higher on RTX 5090
A5000
RTX 5090
Precision support
A5000
RTX 5090
Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.
Architecture
A5000
RTX 5090
Released
4 years newer on RTX 5090
A5000
RTX 5090
Source: A5000 datasheet and RTX 5090 datasheet.
Price comparison
Cheapest on-demand
2.2x higher on RTX 5090
A5000
RTX 5090
Typical rate
1.9x higher on A5000
A5000
RTX 5090
Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Spot floor
1.2x higher on RTX 5090
A5000
RTX 5090
Providers listing it
7 more on RTX 5090
A5000
RTX 5090
Price, last 90 days
A5000
RTX 5090
Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market.
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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
Offers and availability
How this list works
Order
Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:
- Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
- Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
- Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.
The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.
Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.
Transparency and funding
- Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
- Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
- Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.
A5000 Offers
4 of 11 providers report available stock.
RTX 5090 Offers
10 of 18 providers report available stock.
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Our data for Nvidia A5000 was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5090 on Aug. 31, 2026.