A40 vs RTX PRO 5000: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the RTX PRO 5000 when your workload uses FP8 quantized inference or serving. Choose the A40 when your workload is BF16/FP32-only and FP8 buys you nothing.
Both the A40 and the RTX PRO 5000 ship with 48 GB of VRAM.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. A40 from $0.649/GPU/hr; RTX PRO 5000 from $0.902/GPU/hr. The A40 is 28% cheaper at the entry rate.
A40
Good for training and inference on models that don't need FP8 kernels
RTX PRO 5000
Good for fine-tuning mid-size models and high-throughput inference
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Specs side by side
| Spec | A40 | RTX PRO 5000 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 48 GB | 48 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | – | 1,344 GB/s |
| Architecture | Ampere | Blackwell |
| Compute capability | 8.6 | 12.0 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 |
| Max board power (TDP) | – | 300W |
| Regions | 1 | 2 |
On-demand price
| Rate | A40 | RTX PRO 5000 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $0.649/GPU/hr | $0.902/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) |
Which is better for AI: A40 or RTX PRO 5000?
Choose the RTX PRO 5000 when your workload uses FP8 quantized inference or serving. Choose the A40 when your workload is BF16/FP32-only and FP8 buys you nothing.
A40 vs RTX PRO 5000: common questions
Is the A40 or the RTX PRO 5000 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the RTX PRO 5000 when your workload uses FP8 quantized inference or serving. Choose the A40 when your workload is BF16/FP32-only and FP8 buys you nothing.
Is the A40 or the RTX PRO 5000 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A40 starts at $0.649/GPU/hr (median $0.649/GPU/hr) and the RTX PRO 5000 starts at $0.902/GPU/hr (median $0.902/GPU/hr). The A40 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 28%.
What is the difference between the A40 and the RTX PRO 5000?
Both cards report 48 GB of VRAM; the A40 is an Ampere part and the RTX PRO 5000 is Blackwell (compute capability 8.6 vs 12.0); only the RTX PRO 5000 supports FP8 compute. On price, the A40 lists from $0.649/GPU/hr and the RTX PRO 5000 from $0.902/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the A40 and the RTX PRO 5000?
The A40 is listed in 1 region and the RTX PRO 5000 in 2 regions right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A40 vs the RTX PRO 5000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $649 on the A40 and $902 on the RTX PRO 5000, a difference of $253 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the A40 have compared to the RTX PRO 5000?
Both the A40 and the RTX PRO 5000 ship with 48 GB of VRAM.
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 PRO 5000 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 PRO 5000 VRAM calculator, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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