A data center GPU against a workstation card on the Pascal architecture: 16 GB HBM2 against 16 GB GDDR5X, 2.5x the memory bandwidth on the P100, and NVLink 160 GB/s on the P100 where the P5000 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 43 minutes ago- Memory
- 16 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 732 GB/s
- From
- $1.27 /GPU/hr
- 5 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR5X
- Memory bandwidth
- 288 GB/s
- From
- $0.78 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | P100 | P5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $1.27 | $0.78 | 39% cheaper on P5000 |
| Spot | $0.77 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.12 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.53 | $0.78 | 49% cheaper on P5000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
P100 vs P5000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | P100 | P5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB HBM2 | 16 GB GDDR5X | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 732 GB/s | 288 GB/s | 2.5x higher on P100 |
| Bus width | 4,096-bit | 256-bit | 16x wider on P100 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 18.7 TFLOPS | ||
| FP32 | 9.3 TFLOPS | 8.9 TFLOPS | Within 5% |
| FP64 | 4.7 TFLOPS | Not supported | P100 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 160 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on P100 only |
| Board power | 250 W | 180 W | 1.4x higher on P100 |
| Released | Q2 2016 | Q4 2016 | |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32FP64 | FP16FP32 | |
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: P100 datasheet and P5000 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | P100 /GPU/hr | P5000 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Scaleway
|
On-Demand $1.42 | -- |
Oracle Cloud
|
On-Demand $1.27 | -- |
Google Cloud
|
On-Demand $1.51 | -- |
Alibaba Cloud
|
On-Demand $1.55 | -- |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.12 | -- |
Paperspace
|
-- | On-Demand $0.78 |
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Our data for Nvidia P100 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia P5000 on Sept. 7, 2026.