Two Nvidia workstation GPUs, one Pascal and one Turing: 16 GB GDDR5X against 16 GB GDDR6, 56% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 5000, and NVLink 50 GB/s on the RTX 5000 where the P5000 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 13 hours ago- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR5X
- Memory bandwidth
- 288 GB/s
- From
- $0.78 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.60 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | P5000 | RTX 5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.78 | $0.60 | 23% cheaper on RTX 5000 |
| Median | $0.78 | $0.71 | 9% cheaper on RTX 5000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
P5000 vs RTX 5000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | P5000 | RTX 5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB GDDR5X | 16 GB GDDR6 | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 288 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 1.6x higher on RTX 5000 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 256-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 89.2 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | Not supported | 178.4 TOPS | RTX 5000 only |
| FP32 | 8.9 TFLOPS | 11.2 TFLOPS | 1.3x higher on RTX 5000 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 50 GB/s | NVLink on RTX 5000 only |
| Board power | 180 W | 265 W | 1.5x higher on RTX 5000 |
| Released | Q4 2016 | Q3 2018 | 2 years newer on RTX 5000 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: P5000 datasheet and RTX 5000 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | P5000 /GPU/hr | RTX 5000 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Paperspace
|
On-Demand $0.78 | On-Demand $0.82 |
OVH
|
-- | On-Demand $0.60 |
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Our data for Nvidia P5000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5000 on Sept. 7, 2026.