A40 vs RTX 5070: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the A40 when 48 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 5070 when 12 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
The A40 has 48 GB of VRAM; the RTX 5070 has 12 GB.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. A40 from $0.649/GPU/hr; RTX 5070 from $0.331/GPU/hr. The RTX 5070 is 49% cheaper at the entry rate.
A40
Good for training and inference on models that don't need FP8 kernels
RTX 5070
Good for inference and light fine-tuning workloads
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Specs side by side
| Spec | A40 | RTX 5070 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 48 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | – | 672 GB/s |
| Architecture | Ampere | Blackwell |
| Compute capability | 8.6 | 12.0 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 |
| Peak FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS | – | 123.5 TFLOPS |
| Peak FP8 tensor TFLOPS | – | 246.9 TFLOPS |
| Max board power (TDP) | – | 250W |
| Regions | 1 | 1 |
On-demand price
| Rate | A40 | RTX 5070 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $0.649/GPU/hr | $0.331/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) |
Which is better for AI: A40 or RTX 5070?
Choose the A40 when 48 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 5070 when 12 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
A40 vs RTX 5070: common questions
Is the A40 or the RTX 5070 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the A40 when 48 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 5070 when 12 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
Is the A40 or the RTX 5070 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A40 starts at $0.649/GPU/hr (median $0.649/GPU/hr) and the RTX 5070 starts at $0.331/GPU/hr (median $0.331/GPU/hr). The RTX 5070 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 49%.
What is the difference between the A40 and the RTX 5070?
The A40 has 48 GB of VRAM against the RTX 5070's 12 GB; the A40 is an Ampere part and the RTX 5070 is Blackwell (compute capability 8.6 vs 12.0); only the RTX 5070 supports FP8 compute. On price, the A40 lists from $0.649/GPU/hr and the RTX 5070 from $0.331/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the A40 and the RTX 5070?
The A40 is listed in 1 region and the RTX 5070 in 1 region right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A40 vs the RTX 5070?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $649 on the A40 and $331 on the RTX 5070, a difference of $318 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the A40 have compared to the RTX 5070?
The A40 has 48 GB of VRAM; the RTX 5070 has 12 GB.
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.
Memory bandwidth, tensor TFLOPS, NVLink/interconnect and max board power are the same verified-from-datasheet figures shown on each model's own A40 page and RTX 5070 page, which link the primary vendor source for that model. A dash here means Aquanode hasn't verified that figure from a primary source yet, never a guess.
Go further
Check what fits in each card's memory with the A40 VRAM calculator and the RTX 5070 VRAM calculator, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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