Nvidia RTX A6000 vs Nvidia RTX PRO 6000

The RTX PRO 6000 is newer, with 2x the memory and 2.1x the bandwidth. The RTX A6000 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on RTX PRO 6000

RTX A6000: 48 GB

RTX PRO 6000: 96 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.1x higher on RTX PRO 6000

RTX A6000: 768 GB/s

RTX PRO 6000: 1,597 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

46% cheaper on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: $0.35 /GPU/hr

RTX PRO 6000: $0.65 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX A6000	RTX PRO 6000	Difference
On-demand	$0.58 /GPU/hr from $0.35	$2.19 /GPU/hr from $0.65	73% cheaper on RTX A6000
Reserved	$0.54 /GPU/hr from $0.26 (6 mo)	$1.81 /GPU/hr from $0.48 (1 mo)	70% cheaper on RTX A6000
Spot	$0.34 /GPU/hr from $0.13	$1.29 /GPU/hr from $0.26	74% cheaper on RTX A6000

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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

RTX A6000 vs RTX PRO 6000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX A6000	RTX PRO 6000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	96 GB GDDR7	2x more on RTX PRO 6000
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	1,597 GB/s	2.1x higher on RTX PRO 6000
Bus width	384-bit	512-bit	33% wider on RTX PRO 6000
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	2,000 TFLOPS	RTX PRO 6000 only
FP8	Not supported	1,000 TFLOPS	RTX PRO 6000 only
FP16 / BF16	154.8 TFLOPS	500 TFLOPS	3.2x higher on RTX PRO 6000
INT8	309.7 TOPS	1,000 TOPS	3.2x higher on RTX PRO 6000
FP32	38.7 TFLOPS	120 TFLOPS	3.1x higher on RTX PRO 6000
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX A6000 only
Board power	300 W	600 W	2x higher on RTX PRO 6000
Released	Q4 2020	Q1 2025	4 years newer on RTX PRO 6000
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: RTX A6000 datasheet and RTX PRO 6000 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 PRO 6000
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.69 /GPU/hr On-demand
Vast.ai USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.07 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lium Distributed	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.20 /GPU/hr On-demand
Thunder Compute USA	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Hyperstack UK	$0.50 /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	--
Packet·ai USA	--	$0.66 /GPU/hr On-demand
HyperAI Hong Kong	--	$0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPUhub Singapore	--	$1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$1.69 /GPU/hr On-demand
UpCloud Finland	--	$1.88 /GPU/hr On-demand