A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 40 GB HBM2 against 12 GB GDDR7, 2.3x the memory bandwidth on the A800, and NVLink 400 GB/s on the A800 where the RTX 5070 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 40 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.55 TB/s
- From
- $1.18 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 672 GB/s
- From
- $0.24 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A800 | RTX 5070 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $1.18 | $0.24 | 4.9x more expensive on A800 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.08 | |
| Median | $1.18 | $0.28 | 4.2x more expensive on A800 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A800 vs RTX 5070 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A800 | RTX 5070 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 40 GB HBM2 | 12 GB GDDR7 | 3.3x more on A800 |
| Bandwidth | 1,555 GB/s | 672 GB/s | 2.3x higher on A800 |
| Bus width | 5,120-bit | 192-bit | 27x wider on A800 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 493.9 TFLOPS | RTX 5070 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 123.5 TFLOPS | RTX 5070 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 312 TFLOPS | 61.7 TFLOPS | 5.1x higher on A800 |
| INT8 | 623.5 TOPS | 246.9 TOPS | 2.5x higher on A800 |
| FP32 | 19.5 TFLOPS | 30.9 TFLOPS | 1.6x higher on RTX 5070 |
| FP64 | 9.7 TFLOPS | Not supported | A800 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 400 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on A800 only |
| Board power | 240 W | 250 W | Within 5% |
| Released | Q4 2022 | Q1 2025 | 2 years newer on RTX 5070 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A800 datasheet and RTX 5070 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A800 /GPU/hr | RTX 5070 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
GPUhub
|
On-Demand $1.18 | -- |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.24 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.33 |
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Our data for Nvidia A800 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5070 on Sept. 7, 2026.