Nvidia RTX A6000 vs Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada

The RTX A6000 has 50% more memory and 33% more bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

50% more on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: 48 GB

RTX 5000 Ada: 32 GB

Memory bandwidth

33% higher on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: 768 GB/s

RTX 5000 Ada: 576 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

29% cheaper on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: $0.35 /GPU/hr

RTX 5000 Ada: $0.49 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX A6000	RTX 5000 Ada
On-demand	$0.56 /GPU/hr from $0.35	-- /GPU/hr from $0.49
Reserved	$0.48 /GPU/hr from $0.26 (6 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	$0.33 /GPU/hr from $0.13	No spot listings

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 on-demand on the RTX 5000 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

RTX A6000 vs RTX 5000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX A6000	RTX 5000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	32 GB GDDR6	50% more on RTX A6000
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	576 GB/s	33% higher on RTX A6000
Bus width	384-bit	256-bit	50% wider on RTX A6000
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	522.2 TFLOPS	RTX 5000 Ada only
FP16 / BF16	154.8 TFLOPS	261.1 TFLOPS	69% higher on RTX 5000 Ada
INT8	309.7 TOPS
FP32	38.7 TFLOPS	65.3 TFLOPS	69% higher on RTX 5000 Ada
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX A6000 only
Board power	300 W	250 W	20% higher on RTX A6000
Released	Q4 2020	Q3 2023	3 years newer on RTX 5000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: RTX A6000 datasheet and RTX 5000 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	RTX A6000	RTX 5000 Ada
Runpod USA	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand
Thunder Compute USA	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Vast.ai USA	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Spheron Singapore	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Massed Compute USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Oblivus USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Sesterce France	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--