Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada vs Nvidia V100

Nvidia V100 rents for 1.6x less per hour, but Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada buys 1.3x more FP16 compute per dollar — the cheaper card is the dearer one per unit of work.

Prices and stock checked 2 hours ago

Datasheet, side by side

Memory per GPUidentical
Memory bandwidth1.6x on the Nvidia V100
FP16 / BF16 dense2.1x on the Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Board power1.2x on the Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada

Figures are the vendors' own published numbers, dense rates without sparsity. A bar is drawn only where both cards publish the same figure.

Price, side by side

Metric Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Nvidia V100
Cheapest listed $0.27 $0.17
Median across providers $0.34 $0.39
Most expensive listed $0.49 $2.34
Providers 3 5
Reporting stock 2 2
One month, 730 hours $197 $124

Frequently asked questions

Is the Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada or the Nvidia V100 cheaper to rent?

The Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada starts at $0.27 per GPU hour and the Nvidia V100 at $0.17. Nvidia V100 rents for 1.6x less per hour, but Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada buys 1.3x more FP16 compute per dollar — the cheaper card is the dearer one per unit of work.

Which one can I actually get right now?

Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada: 2 of 3 providers report stock, cheapest in stock $0.34 at Vast.ai. Nvidia V100: 2 of 5 providers report stock, cheapest in stock $0.19 at Runpod.

What does a month on each card cost?

Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada: $197 for 730 hours at its cheapest listed rate. Nvidia V100: $124 for 730 hours at its cheapest listed rate.