Nvidia RTX A6000 vs Nvidia RTX 5090

The RTX A6000 has 50% more memory, while the RTX 5090 is newer and has 2.3x the bandwidth. The two typically cost about the same.

At a glance

Memory

50% more on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: 48 GB

RTX 5090: 32 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.3x higher on RTX 5090

RTX A6000: 768 GB/s

RTX 5090: 1,792 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

13% cheaper on RTX 5090

RTX A6000: $0.40 /GPU/hr

RTX 5090: $0.35 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX A6000	RTX 5090	Difference
On-demand	$0.66 /GPU/hr from $0.40	$0.67 /GPU/hr from $0.35	Within 5%
Reserved	$0.48 /GPU/hr from $0.26 (6 mo)	$0.60 /GPU/hr from $0.21 (1 mo)	20% cheaper on RTX A6000
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.27	$0.40 /GPU/hr from $0.25

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 RTX 5090 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX A6000	RTX 5090	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	32 GB GDDR7	50% more on RTX A6000
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	1,792 GB/s	2.3x higher on RTX 5090
Bus width	384-bit	512-bit	33% wider on RTX 5090
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	1,676 TFLOPS	RTX 5090 only
FP8	Not supported	419 TFLOPS	RTX 5090 only
FP16 / BF16	154.8 TFLOPS	209.5 TFLOPS	35% higher on RTX 5090
INT8	309.7 TOPS	838 TOPS	2.7x higher on RTX 5090
FP32	38.7 TFLOPS	104.8 TFLOPS	2.7x higher on RTX 5090
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX A6000 only
Board power	300 W	575 W	92% higher on RTX 5090
Released	Q4 2020	Q1 2025	4 years newer on RTX 5090
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: RTX A6000 datasheet and RTX 5090 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 5090
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand
Vast.ai USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lium Distributed	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Hyperstack UK	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Spheron Singapore	$0.54 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Massed Compute USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$0.74 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
HyperAI Hong Kong	--	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPUhub Singapore	--	$0.46 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	--	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand
Nova Cloud Canada	--	$0.66 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe