Nvidia P40 vs Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada

The RTX 5000 Ada is newer, with 33% more memory and 66% more bandwidth. The P40 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

33% more on RTX 5000 Ada

P40: 24 GB

RTX 5000 Ada: 32 GB

Memory bandwidth

66% higher on RTX 5000 Ada

P40: 346 GB/s

RTX 5000 Ada: 576 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

68% cheaper on P40

P40: $0.11 /GPU/hr

RTX 5000 Ada: $0.33 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	P40	RTX 5000 Ada
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11	-- /GPU/hr from $0.33
Reserved	No reserved listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.30 (3 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07	-- /GPU/hr from $0.31

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. No median for on-demand and spot on the P40 and on-demand, reserved and spot on the RTX 5000 Ada: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

P40 vs RTX 5000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 13 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	P40	RTX 5000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR5	32 GB GDDR6	33% more on RTX 5000 Ada
Bandwidth	346 GB/s	576 GB/s	66% higher on RTX 5000 Ada
Bus width	384-bit	256-bit	50% wider on P40
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	522.2 TFLOPS	RTX 5000 Ada only
FP16 / BF16		261.1 TFLOPS
INT8	47 TOPS
FP32	12 TFLOPS	65.3 TFLOPS	5.4x higher on RTX 5000 Ada
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	250 W	250 W	Identical
Released	Q3 2016	Q3 2023	7 years newer on RTX 5000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8