Nvidia P40 vs Nvidia RTX PRO 5000

The RTX PRO 5000 is newer, with 2x the memory and 3.9x the bandwidth. The P40 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on RTX PRO 5000

P40: 24 GB

RTX PRO 5000: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.9x higher on RTX PRO 5000

P40: 346 GB/s

RTX PRO 5000: 1,344 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

82% cheaper on P40

P40: $0.11 /GPU/hr

RTX PRO 5000: $0.60 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	P40	RTX PRO 5000
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11	-- /GPU/hr from $0.60
Reserved	No reserved listings	$0.86 /GPU/hr from $0.50 (24 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07	-- /GPU/hr from $0.17

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 and spot on the RTX PRO 5000: 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 PRO 5000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 13 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	P40	RTX PRO 5000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR5	48 GB GDDR7	2x more on RTX PRO 5000
Bandwidth	346 GB/s	1,344 GB/s	3.9x higher on RTX PRO 5000
Bus width	384-bit	512-bit	33% wider on RTX PRO 5000
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	1,032 TFLOPS	RTX PRO 5000 only
FP8	Not supported	516 TFLOPS	RTX PRO 5000 only
FP16 / BF16		258 TFLOPS
INT8	47 TOPS	516 TOPS	11x higher on RTX PRO 5000
FP32	12 TFLOPS	65 TFLOPS	5.4x higher on RTX PRO 5000
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	250 W	300 W	20% higher on RTX PRO 5000
Released	Q3 2016	Q1 2025	8 years newer on RTX PRO 5000
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: P40 datasheet and RTX PRO 5000 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	P40	RTX PRO 5000
Vast.ai USA	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.60 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.82 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	--	$0.50 /GPU/hr Reserved
Contabo Germany	--	$1.08 /GPU/hr Reserved