RTX A6000 vs RTX A5000
Specifications, today's prices from 37 providers, price per unit of memory and compute, and who rents each cheapest. Better values are highlighted; lower is better for prices.
Specs, prices, value
Highlighted cells are the better of the two: more memory and compute, lower prices, lower cost per unit.
| RTX A6000 | RTX A5000 | Difference | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory & compute | |||
| VRAM | 48 GB | 24 GB | +100% |
| Memory bandwidth | 0.77 TB/s | 0.77 TB/s | 0% |
| FP16 tensor | — | — | — |
| FP32 | 38.7 TFLOPS | 27.8 TFLOPS | +39% |
| Power | 300 W | 230 W | +30% |
| Prices today | |||
| Cheapest on-demand | $0.19 | $0.12 | +57% |
| Median on-demand | $0.54 | $0.27 | +103% |
| Highest on-demand | $1.50 | $1.10 | +37% |
| Cheapest spot | $0.13 | $0.11 | +25% |
| Cheapest reserved | $0.28 | $0.24 | +16% |
| Current offers (n) | 54 | 15 | +260% |
| Providers with a fresh offer | 27 | 10 | +170% |
| Value | |||
| Per GB of VRAM · hour (cheapest) | $0.004 | $0.005 | -22% |
| Per GB of VRAM · hour (median) | $0.011 | $0.011 | +2% |
| Per PFLOP FP16 · hour (median) | — | — | — |
| Per TB/s · hour (median) | $0.703 | $0.346 | +103% |
| Trend | |||
| 30-day median change | -6.8% | — | — |
| 90-day median change | -6.8% | — | — |
How the two have moved
Both medians indexed to 100 ninety days ago, so the slopes compare even though the price levels differ.
Cheapest providers today · on-demand · current offersWho rents each one cheapest
- 1
Clore.aiTrust 492× $0.19 - 2
GPURento1× $0.33
- 3
gcube1× $0.34
- 1
gcube1× $0.12
- 2
GPURento1× $0.16
- 3
Clore.aiTrust 491× $0.17
Choose one, choose the other
Choose the RTX A6000 if…
- your model needs more than 24 GB per GPU: 48 GB against 24 GB.
- you want choice: 27 providers have a fresh offer today against 10.
Choose the RTX A5000 if…
- the hourly price matters most: median $0.27 against $0.54, 51% less.
- you serve LLMs: memory bandwidth per dollar is better ($0.346 per TB/s-hour against $0.703).
Questions about RTX A6000 vs RTX A5000
Which is cheaper to rent, the RTX A6000 or the RTX A5000?
Today the cheapest current on-demand RTX A6000 is $0.19 per GPU-hour and the cheapest RTX A5000 is $0.12; medians are $0.54 and $0.27. Cheapest excludes offers marked unavailable and counts one floor per marketplace.
How much memory do the RTX A6000 and RTX A5000 have?
48 GB of GDDR6 on the RTX A6000, 24 GB of GDDR6 on the RTX A5000, at 0.77 and 0.77 TB/s.
Where do these numbers come from?
From 69 current offers read on the providers' own pages and APIs over the last 45 days (reference 00:32 UTC), or in our October 2026 market study for the few providers our collector does not read. Specifications come from manufacturer datasheets. Every price on the GPU pages links to its receipt and shows its read date.
