A consumer GPU against a workstation card, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 8 GB GDDR5 against 48 GB GDDR6 and 3.8x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 6000 Ada.
At a glance
Updated 4 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- From
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.55 /GPU/hr
- 14 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GTX 1070 | RTX 6000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.04 | $0.55 | 14x more expensive on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Spot | $0.02 | $0.29 | 15x more expensive on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $1.04 | |
| Median | $0.04 | $0.96 | 22x more expensive on RTX 6000 Ada |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1070 vs RTX 6000 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1070 | RTX 6000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 6x more on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 256 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 3.8x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 384-bit | 1.5x wider on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 728.5 TFLOPS | RTX 6000 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 364.2 TFLOPS | ||
| FP32 | 6.5 TFLOPS | 91.1 TFLOPS | 14x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 150 W | 300 W | 2x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Released | Q2 2016 | Q4 2022 | 6 years newer on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1070 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 | GTX 1070 /GPU/hr | RTX 6000 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.0470 | On-Demand $0.71 |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0400 | -- |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.55 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.65 |
Massed Compute
|
-- | On-Demand $0.79 |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $1.07 |
Runcrate
|
-- | On-Demand $1.07 |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
-- | On-Demand $1.10 |
TensorDock
|
-- | On-Demand $0.86 |
2 providers list the GTX 1070 and 14 the RTX 6000 Ada. Every listing is on the GTX 1070 page and the RTX 6000 Ada page.
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1070 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.