A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 24 GB GDDR5 against 48 GB GDDR6 and 2.8x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 6000 Ada.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 346 GB/s
- From
- --
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.65 /GPU/hr
- 11 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | P40 | RTX 6000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | -- | $0.65 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $1.04 | |
| Median | -- | $1.04 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
P40 vs RTX 6000 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | P40 | RTX 6000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR5 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 2x more on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 346 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 2.8x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 384-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 728.5 TFLOPS | RTX 6000 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 364.2 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | 47 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 12 TFLOPS | 91.1 TFLOPS | 7.6x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 250 W | 300 W | 1.2x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Released | Q3 2016 | Q4 2022 | 6 years newer on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: P40 datasheet and RTX 6000 Ada datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | P40 /GPU/hr | RTX 6000 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.65 |
Massed Compute
|
-- | On-Demand $0.79 |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
-- | On-Demand $1.50 |
TensorDock
|
-- | On-Demand $0.86 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $1.23 |
DigitalOcean
|
-- | On-Demand $1.57 |
AceCloud
|
-- | Reserved (12mo) $1.04 |
Runpod
|
-- | Reservation on request |
0 providers list the P40 and 11 the RTX 6000 Ada. Every listing is on the P40 page and the RTX 6000 Ada page.
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Our data for Nvidia P40 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.