A100 vs RTX PRO 6000 SE: cloud rental cost compared

You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. A100 from $1.35/GPU/hr across 5 providers; RTX PRO 6000 SE from $2.14/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The A100 is 37% cheaper at the entry rate.

A100
Good for training and inference on models that don't need FP8 kernels
$1.35/hr
Lowest / GPU
$1.59/hr
Median / GPU
80 GB
VRAM
Ampere
Architecture
RTX PRO 6000 SE
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
$2.14/hr
Lowest / GPU
$2.14/hr
Median / GPU
96 GB
VRAM
Blackwell
Architecture

Specs side by side

Spec
A100
RTX PRO 6000 SE
VRAM
80 GB
96 GB
Architecture
Ampere
Blackwell
Compute capability
8.0
12.0
Precisions in hardware
FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4
FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4
Interconnect
PCIe
PCIe
Lowest $/GPU/hr
$1.35
$2.14
Median $/GPU/hr
$1.59
$2.14
Providers
5
1
Regions
5
1

Price by provider

A100 vs RTX PRO 6000 SE: common questions

Is the A100 or the RTX PRO 6000 SE cheaper to rent?

On Aquanode's live marketplace the A100 starts at $1.35/GPU/hr (median $1.59/GPU/hr across 5 providers) and the RTX PRO 6000 SE starts at $2.14/GPU/hr (median $2.14/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The A100 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 37%.

What is the difference between the A100 and the RTX PRO 6000 SE?

The A100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX PRO 6000 SE's 96 GB; the A100 is an Ampere part and the RTX PRO 6000 SE is Blackwell (compute capability 8.0 vs 12.0); only the RTX PRO 6000 SE supports FP8 compute. On price, the A100 lists from $1.35/GPU/hr and the RTX PRO 6000 SE from $2.14/GPU/hr.

Which cloud providers offer the A100 and the RTX PRO 6000 SE?

5 providers list the A100 (Massed Compute, HyperStack, RunPod, Verda and Akash) and 1 list the RTX PRO 6000 SE (Akash), across 5 and 1 region respectively. Both are available from Akash.

How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A100 vs the RTX PRO 6000 SE?

At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $1,350 on the A100 and $2,142 on the RTX PRO 6000 SE, a difference of $792 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.

How this comparison is calculated

Every price is normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using the same pipeline as every other pricing surface on Aquanode, and only the cheapest qualifying offer per provider is shown. A dash means that provider does not currently list that GPU.

Architecture, compute capability and supported precisions come from each vendor's published datasheet for that generation, not from the marketplace feed. This page regenerates at most once per hour.

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