Nvidia RTX A6000 vs Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada

The RTX 5880 Ada is newer and has 25% more bandwidth, with the same 48 GB of memory. The RTX A6000 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

RTX A6000: 48 GB

RTX 5880 Ada: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

25% higher on RTX 5880 Ada

RTX A6000: 768 GB/s

RTX 5880 Ada: 960 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

18% cheaper on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: $0.40 /GPU/hr

RTX 5880 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 5880 Ada
On-demand	$0.75 /GPU/hr from $0.40	-- /GPU/hr from $0.49
Reserved	$0.48 /GPU/hr from $0.26 (6 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.33	-- /GPU/hr from $0.27

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 and on-demand and spot on the RTX 5880 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 5880 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX A6000	RTX 5880 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	48 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	960 GB/s	25% higher on RTX 5880 Ada
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	554.2 TFLOPS	RTX 5880 Ada only
FP16 / BF16	154.8 TFLOPS	277.1 TFLOPS	79% higher on RTX 5880 Ada
INT8	309.7 TOPS
FP32	38.7 TFLOPS	69.3 TFLOPS	79% higher on RTX 5880 Ada
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX A6000 only
Board power	300 W	285 W	5% higher on RTX A6000
Released	Q4 2020	Q1 2024	3 years newer on RTX 5880 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: RTX A6000 datasheet and RTX 5880 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 5880 Ada
Vast.ai USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lium Distributed	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Massed Compute USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Oblivus USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$0.85 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lambda Labs USA	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$1.20 /GPU/hr On-demand	--