Nvidia A5000 vs Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada

The RTX 6000 Ada is newer, with 2x the memory and 25% more bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on RTX 6000 Ada

A5000: 24 GB

RTX 6000 Ada: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

25% higher on RTX 6000 Ada

A5000: 768 GB/s

RTX 6000 Ada: 960 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

57% cheaper on A5000

A5000: $0.23 /GPU/hr

RTX 6000 Ada: $0.54 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A5000	RTX 6000 Ada	Difference
On-demand	$1.24 /GPU/hr from $0.23	$0.86 /GPU/hr from $0.54	31% cheaper on RTX 6000 Ada
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.25 (24 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.43 (3 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.09	-- /GPU/hr from $0.27

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 reserved and spot on the RTX 6000 Ada: 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 6000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A5000	RTX 6000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	48 GB GDDR6	2x more on RTX 6000 Ada
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	960 GB/s	25% higher on RTX 6000 Ada
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	728.5 TFLOPS	RTX 6000 Ada only
FP16 / BF16	111.1 TFLOPS	364.2 TFLOPS	3.3x higher on RTX 6000 Ada
FP32	27.8 TFLOPS	91.1 TFLOPS	3.3x higher on RTX 6000 Ada
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on A5000 only
Board power	230 W	300 W	30% higher on RTX 6000 Ada
Released	Q2 2021	Q4 2022	2 years newer on RTX 6000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: A5000 datasheet and RTX 6000 Ada 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 6000 Ada
Vast.ai USA	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.54 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.74 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	$1.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.07 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	$1.85 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	$1.26 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Salad Distributed	$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Paperspace USA	$1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Database Mart USA	$0.25 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lium Distributed	--	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	--	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand
EmpirioLabs AI USA	--	$1.40 /GPU/hr On-demand