Nvidia RTX 5000 vs Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada

The RTX 5880 Ada is newer, with 3x the memory and 2.1x the bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on RTX 5880 Ada

RTX 5000: 16 GB

RTX 5880 Ada: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.1x higher on RTX 5880 Ada

RTX 5000: 448 GB/s

RTX 5880 Ada: 960 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

RTX 5000: $0.60 /GPU/hr

RTX 5880 Ada: --

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 5000	RTX 5880 Ada	Difference
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.60	No on-demand listings

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 RTX 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

RTX 5000 vs RTX 5880 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 5000	RTX 5880 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	48 GB GDDR6	3x more on RTX 5880 Ada
Bandwidth	448 GB/s	960 GB/s	2.1x higher on RTX 5880 Ada
Bus width	256-bit	384-bit	50% wider on RTX 5880 Ada
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	554.2 TFLOPS	RTX 5880 Ada only
FP16 / BF16	89.2 TFLOPS	277.1 TFLOPS	3.1x higher on RTX 5880 Ada
INT8	178.4 TOPS
FP32	11.2 TFLOPS	69.3 TFLOPS	6.2x higher on RTX 5880 Ada
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 50 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX 5000 only
Board power	265 W	285 W	8% higher on RTX 5880 Ada
Released	Q3 2018	Q1 2024	5 years newer on RTX 5880 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8