The RTX PRO 5000 is newer, with 2x the memory and 75% more bandwidth. The A5000 is cheaper right now.
At a glance
Memory
2x more on RTX PRO 5000
- A5000
- 24 GB
- RTX PRO 5000
- 48 GB
Memory bandwidth
75% higher on RTX PRO 5000
- A5000
- 768 GB/s
- RTX PRO 5000
- 1,344 GB/s
Cheapest on-demand
63% cheaper on A5000
- A5000
- $0.23 /GPU/hr
- RTX PRO 5000
- $0.63 /GPU/hr
Price comparison
Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.
| Billing | A5000 | RTX PRO 5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $1.31 /GPU/hr from $0.23 | -- /GPU/hr from $0.63 | |
| Reserved | $0.35 /GPU/hr from $0.23 (3 mo) | $0.60 /GPU/hr from $0.50 (24 mo) | 42% cheaper on A5000 |
| Spot | -- /GPU/hr from $0.09 | -- /GPU/hr from $0.17 |
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 spot on the A5000 and on-demand and spot on the RTX PRO 5000: 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 PRO 5000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A5000 | RTX PRO 5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6 | 48 GB GDDR7 | 2x more on RTX PRO 5000 |
| Bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 1,344 GB/s | 75% higher on RTX PRO 5000 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 512-bit | 33% wider on RTX PRO 5000 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 1,032 TFLOPS | RTX PRO 5000 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 516 TFLOPS | RTX PRO 5000 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 111.1 TFLOPS | 258 TFLOPS | 2.3x higher on RTX PRO 5000 |
| INT8 | 516 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 27.8 TFLOPS | 65 TFLOPS | 2.3x higher on RTX PRO 5000 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 112 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on A5000 only |
| Board power | 230 W | 300 W | 30% higher on RTX PRO 5000 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q1 2025 | 4 years newer on RTX PRO 5000 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A5000 datasheet and RTX PRO 5000 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 PRO 5000 |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
USA
|
$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.63 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Database Mart
USA
|
$0.25 /GPU/hr Reserved | $0.50 /GPU/hr Reserved |
Runcrate
USA
|
$1.56 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe | -- |
Sesterce
France
|
$1.56 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- |
Salad
Distributed
|
$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- |
Exoscale
Switzerland
|
$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- |
Paperspace
USA
|
$1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- |
Cirrascale
USA
|
$0.42 /GPU/hr Reserved | -- |
Contabo
Germany
|
-- | $1.09 /GPU/hr Reserved |
Runpod
USA
|
-- | On request Reserved |
11 providers list the A5000 and 4 the RTX PRO 5000. Every listing is on the A5000 page and the RTX PRO 5000 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A5000 was last updated on Sept. 14, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX PRO 5000 on Sept. 14, 2026.