Nvidia RTX A6000 vs Nvidia B200

The B200 is newer, with 3.8x the memory and 10x the bandwidth. The RTX A6000 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

3.8x more on B200

RTX A6000: 48 GB

B200: 180 GB

Memory bandwidth

10x higher on B200

RTX A6000: 768 GB/s

B200: 7,700 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

89% cheaper on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: $0.40 /GPU/hr

B200: $3.75 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX A6000	B200	Difference
On-demand	$0.75 /GPU/hr from $0.40	$6.52 /GPU/hr from $3.75	88% cheaper on RTX A6000
Reserved	$0.48 /GPU/hr from $0.26 (6 mo)	$5.62 /GPU/hr from $3.75	91% cheaper on RTX A6000
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.33	$4.78 /GPU/hr from $4.18

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 RTX A6000: 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

RTX A6000 vs B200 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX A6000	B200	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	180 GB HBM3e	3.8x more on B200
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	7,700 GB/s	10x higher on B200
Bus width	384-bit
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	9,000 TFLOPS	B200 only
FP8	Not supported	4,500 TFLOPS	B200 only
FP16 / BF16	154.8 TFLOPS	2,250 TFLOPS	15x higher on B200
INT8	309.7 TOPS	4,500 TOPS	15x higher on B200
FP32	38.7 TFLOPS	75 TFLOPS	94% higher on B200
FP64	Not supported	37 TFLOPS	B200 only
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	NVLink 1,800 GB/s	16x higher on B200
Board power	300 W	1,000 W	3.3x higher on B200
Released	Q4 2020	Q1 2024	3 years newer on B200
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP6FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8

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

Source: RTX A6000 datasheet and B200 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	RTX A6000	B200
Vast.ai USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$7.81 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$6.79 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM
Lium Distributed	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand	$5.44 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$0.85 /GPU/hr On-demand	$10.90 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Oblivus USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Lambda Labs USA	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$1.20 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Packet·ai USA	--	$3.75 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$6.79 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM
Impossible Cloud Germany	--	$8.42 /GPU/hr Reserved SXM
Spheron Singapore	--	$5.37 /GPU/hr Spot SXM