The P5000 has 2x the memory, while the RTX 5050 is newer and has 11% more bandwidth. The RTX 5050 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on P5000

P5000
16 GB
RTX 5050
8 GB

Memory bandwidth

11% higher on RTX 5050

P5000
288 GB/s
RTX 5050
320 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

91% cheaper on RTX 5050

P5000
$0.78 /GPU/hr
RTX 5050
$0.07 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing P5000 RTX 5050 Difference
On-demand -- /GPU/hr from $0.78 -- /GPU/hr from $0.07
Spot No spot listings -- /GPU/hr from $0.03

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 on the P5000 and on-demand and spot on the RTX 5050: 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

P5000 vs RTX 5050 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months
Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec P5000 RTX 5050 Difference
Memory
Capacity 16 GB GDDR5X 8 GB GDDR6 2x more on P5000
Bandwidth 288 GB/s 320 GB/s 11% higher on RTX 5050
Bus width 256-bit 128-bit 2x wider on P5000
Compute · dense
FP4 Not supported 210.5 TFLOPS RTX 5050 only
FP8 Not supported 52.6 TFLOPS RTX 5050 only
FP16 / BF16 26.3 TFLOPS
INT8 Not supported 105.3 TOPS RTX 5050 only
FP32 8.9 TFLOPS 13.2 TFLOPS 48% higher on RTX 5050
Platform
Interconnect PCIe only PCIe only
Board power 180 W 130 W 38% higher on P5000
Released Q4 2016 Q3 2025 9 years newer on RTX 5050
Precision
Supported formats FP16FP32 FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: P5000 datasheet and RTX 5050 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider P5000 RTX 5050
Paperspace logo Paperspace USA $0.78 /GPU/hr On-demand --
Salad logo Salad Distributed -- $0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand

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Our data for Nvidia P5000 was last updated on Sept. 14, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5050 on Nov. 13, 2026.