Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia RTX A6000

The Nvidia RTX A6000 is a workstation GPU on the Ampere architecture, released Q4 2020, with 48 GB GDDR6 and 768 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Mid-Range Workstation

Nvidia logo Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada

The Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada is a workstation GPU on the Ada Lovelace architecture, released Q3 2023, with 20 GB GDDR6 and 360 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Mid-Range Workstation

Memory per GPU

2.4x more on RTX A6000
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48 GB GDDR6
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20 GB GDDR6

Memory bandwidth

2.1x higher on RTX A6000
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768 GB/s
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360 GB/s

GPU interconnect

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NVLink 112 GB/s
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PCIe only

Precision support

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FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8
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FP8 FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

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Ampere
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Ada Lovelace

Released

3 years newer on RTX 4000 Ada
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Q4 2020
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Q3 2023

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

1.2x higher on RTX A6000
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$0.35 / GPU / hr
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$0.28 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

1.1x higher on RTX A6000
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$0.55 / GPU / hr
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$0.51 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Spot floor

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$0.20 / GPU / hr
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No spot listings

Full price range

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$0.20 - $2.12 / GPU / hr
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$0.28 - $1.53 / GPU / hr

Lowest to highest listing per GPU-hour, across on-demand, spot, reserved and custom.

Providers listing it

15 more on RTX A6000
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19
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4

Price, last 90 days

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−5%
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Too volatile to report

Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market.

Heads up: Prices are estimates from published rates for common setups and vary by region and usage; verify with the provider before provisioning.

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:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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Our data for Nvidia RTX A6000 was last updated on Aug. 26, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada on Aug. 26, 2026.