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P40 vs RTX 2000 Ada

Nvidia P40 vs Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada

A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 24 GB GDDR5 against 16 GB GDDR6 and 54% more memory bandwidth on the P40.

At a glance

Memory

P40: 24 GB
RTX 2000 Ada: 16 GB

1.5x more on P40

Memory bandwidth

P40: 346 GB/s
RTX 2000 Ada: 224 GB/s

1.5x higher on P40

Cheapest on-demand

P40: --
RTX 2000 Ada: $0.12 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	P40	RTX 2000 Ada	Difference
On-demand	No on-demand listings	$0.24 /GPU/hr from $0.12
Reserved	No reserved listings	On request

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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

P40 vs RTX 2000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 13 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	P40	RTX 2000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR5	16 GB GDDR6	1.5x more on P40
Bandwidth	346 GB/s	224 GB/s	1.5x higher on P40
Bus width	384-bit	128-bit	3x wider on P40
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	96.0 TFLOPS	RTX 2000 Ada only
FP16 / BF16		48.0 TFLOPS
INT8	47 TOPS
FP32	12 TFLOPS	12 TFLOPS	Identical
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	250 W	70 W	3.6x higher on P40
Released	Q3 2016	Q2 2024	8 years newer on RTX 2000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8