A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 40 GB HBM2 against 48 GB GDDR6, 62% more memory bandwidth on the A800, and NVLink 400 GB/s on the A800 where the RTX 6000 Ada is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 40 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.55 TB/s
- From
- $1.18 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.65 /GPU/hr
- 11 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A800 | RTX 6000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $1.18 | $0.65 | 45% cheaper on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $1.04 | |
| Median | $1.18 | $1.04 | 11% cheaper on RTX 6000 Ada |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A800 vs RTX 6000 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A800 | RTX 6000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 40 GB HBM2 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 1.2x more on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 1,555 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 1.6x higher on A800 |
| Bus width | 5,120-bit | 384-bit | 13x wider on A800 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 728.5 TFLOPS | RTX 6000 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 312 TFLOPS | 364.2 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| INT8 | 623.5 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 19.5 TFLOPS | 91.1 TFLOPS | 4.7x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| FP64 | 9.7 TFLOPS | Not supported | A800 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 400 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on A800 only |
| Board power | 240 W | 300 W | 1.2x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Released | Q4 2022 | Q4 2022 | |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
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 6000 Ada 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 6000 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
GPUhub
|
On-Demand $1.18 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.65 |
Massed Compute
|
-- | On-Demand $0.79 |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
-- | On-Demand $1.50 |
TensorDock
|
-- | On-Demand $0.86 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $1.23 |
DigitalOcean
|
-- | On-Demand $1.57 |
AceCloud
|
-- | Reserved (12mo) $1.04 |
Runpod
|
-- | Reservation on request |
1 provider list the A800 and 11 the RTX 6000 Ada. Every listing is on the A800 page and the RTX 6000 Ada page.
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Our data for Nvidia A800 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.