A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 16 GB HBM2 against 32 GB GDDR6, 27% more memory bandwidth on the P100, and NVLink 160 GB/s on the P100 where the RTX 5000 Ada is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 16 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 732 GB/s
- From
- $0.09 /GPU/hr
- 6 providers
- Memory
- 32 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 576 GB/s
- From
- $0.49 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | P100 | RTX 5000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.09 | $0.49 | 5.2x more expensive on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Spot | $0.08 | $0.32 | 4x more expensive on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Reserved | $0.12 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.42 | $1.31 | 8% cheaper on RTX 5000 Ada |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
P100 vs RTX 5000 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | P100 | RTX 5000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB HBM2 | 32 GB GDDR6 | 2x more on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 732 GB/s | 576 GB/s | 1.3x higher on P100 |
| Bus width | 4,096-bit | 256-bit | 16x wider on P100 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 522.2 TFLOPS | RTX 5000 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 18.7 TFLOPS | 261.1 TFLOPS | 14x higher on RTX 5000 Ada |
| FP32 | 9.3 TFLOPS | 65.3 TFLOPS | 7x higher on RTX 5000 Ada |
| FP64 | 4.7 TFLOPS | Not supported | P100 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 160 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on P100 only |
| Board power | 250 W | 250 W | Identical |
| Released | Q2 2016 | Q3 2023 | 7 years newer on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32FP64 | 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: P100 datasheet and RTX 5000 Ada datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | P100 /GPU/hr | RTX 5000 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.09 | On-Demand $2.12 |
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 | -- |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.49 |
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Our data for Nvidia P100 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.