A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Hopper and one Turing: 80 GB HBM3 against 16 GB GDDR6 and 7.5x the memory bandwidth on the H100.
At a glance
Updated 3 minutes ago- Memory
- 80 GB
- HBM3 · 94 GB on NVL
- Memory bandwidth
- 3.35 TB/s
- 2,000 GB/s on PCIe · 3,938 GB/s on NVL
- From
- $1.50 /GPU/hr
- 53 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.60 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | H100 | RTX 5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $1.50 | $0.60 | 2.5x more expensive on H100 |
| Spot | $0.35 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $1.18 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $3.37 | $0.71 | 4.7x more expensive on H100 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
H100 vs RTX 5000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | H100 | RTX 5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 80 GB HBM3 94 GB on NVL | 16 GB GDDR6 | 5x more on H100 |
| Bandwidth | 3,350 GB/s 2,000 GB/s on PCIe 3,938 GB/s on NVL | 448 GB/s | 7.5x higher on H100 |
| Bus width | 5,120-bit | 256-bit | 20x wider on H100 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 1,979 TFLOPS | Not supported | H100 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 989.5 TFLOPS | 89.2 TFLOPS | 11x higher on H100 |
| INT8 | 1,979 TOPS | 178.4 TOPS | 11x higher on H100 |
| FP32 | 67 TFLOPS | 11.2 TFLOPS | 6x higher on H100 |
| FP64 | 34 TFLOPS | Not supported | H100 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 900 GB/s NVLink 600 GB/s on PCIe, NVL | NVLink 50 GB/s | 18x higher on H100 |
| Board power | 700 W | 265 W | 2.6x higher on H100 |
| Released | Q3 2022 | Q3 2018 | 4 years newer on H100 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
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: H100 datasheet and RTX 5000 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | H100 /GPU/hr | RTX 5000 /GPU/hr |
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On-Demand $1.50 | -- |
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On-Demand $1.73 | -- |
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On-Demand $1.80 | -- |
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On-Demand $1.89 | -- |
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On-Demand $1.98 | -- |
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On-Demand $2.19 | -- |
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On-Demand $2.19 | -- |
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On-Demand $2.50 | -- |
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-- | On-Demand $0.60 |
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-- | On-Demand $0.82 |
53 providers list the H100 and 2 the RTX 5000. Every listing is on the H100 page and the RTX 5000 page.
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Our data for Nvidia H100 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5000 on Sept. 7, 2026.