Nvidia B100 vs Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada

The B100 has 4x the memory and 8.3x the bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

4x more on B100

B100: 192 GB

RTX 5880 Ada: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

8.3x higher on B100

B100: 8,000 GB/s

RTX 5880 Ada: 960 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

B100: --

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	B100	RTX 5880 Ada	Difference
On-demand	No on-demand listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.49
Spot	No spot listings	-- /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 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

B100 vs RTX 5880 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 8 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	B100	RTX 5880 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	192 GB HBM3e	48 GB GDDR6	4x more on B100
Bandwidth	8,000 GB/s	960 GB/s	8.3x higher on B100
Bus width		384-bit
Compute · dense
FP4	7,000 TFLOPS	Not supported	B100 only
FP8	3,500 TFLOPS	554.2 TFLOPS	6.3x higher on B100
FP16 / BF16	1,750 TFLOPS	277.1 TFLOPS	6.3x higher on B100
INT8	3,500 TOPS
FP32	60 TFLOPS	69.3 TFLOPS	15% higher on RTX 5880 Ada
FP64	30 TFLOPS	Not supported	B100 only
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 1,800 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on B100 only
Released	Q4 2024	Q1 2024	10 months newer on B100
Precision
Supported formats	FP4FP6FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8