Two Nvidia workstation GPUs, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 48 GB GDDR6 against 32 GB GDDR6, 33% more memory bandwidth on the RTX A6000, and NVLink 112 GB/s on the RTX A6000 where the RTX 5000 Ada is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 768 GB/s
- From
- $0.35 /GPU/hr
- 21 providers
- Memory
- 32 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 576 GB/s
- From
- $0.34 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX A6000 | RTX 5000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.35 | $0.34 | Within 5% |
| Spot | $0.32 | $0.31 | Within 5% |
| Reserved | $0.35 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.56 | $1.31 | 2.3x more expensive on RTX 5000 Ada |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX A6000 vs RTX 5000 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX A6000 | RTX 5000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 32 GB GDDR6 | 1.5x more on RTX A6000 |
| Bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 576 GB/s | 1.3x higher on RTX A6000 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 256-bit | 1.5x wider on RTX A6000 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 522.2 TFLOPS | RTX 5000 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 154.8 TFLOPS | 261.1 TFLOPS | 1.7x higher on RTX 5000 Ada |
| INT8 | 309.7 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 38.7 TFLOPS | 65.3 TFLOPS | 1.7x higher on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 112 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on RTX A6000 only |
| Board power | 300 W | 250 W | 1.2x 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 listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX A6000 /GPU/hr | RTX 5000 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.40 | On-Demand $0.34 |
Thunder Compute
|
On-Demand $0.35 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.41 | -- |
Lium
|
On-Demand $0.42 | -- |
Spheron
|
On-Demand $0.54 | -- |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $0.57 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.63 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.63 | -- |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.49 |
21 providers list the RTX A6000 and 2 the RTX 5000 Ada. Every listing is on the RTX A6000 page and the RTX 5000 Ada page.
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Our data for Nvidia RTX A6000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.