B200 vs RTX A5000: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the B200 when 180 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX A5000 when 24 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
The B200 has 180 GB of VRAM; the RTX A5000 has 24 GB.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. B200 from $8.79/GPU/hr; RTX A5000 from $0.176/GPU/hr. The RTX A5000 is 98% cheaper at the entry rate.
B200
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
RTX A5000
Good for inference and small-scale training workloads
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Specs side by side
| Spec | B200 | RTX A5000 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 180 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 8 TB/s | 768 GB/s |
| Architecture | Blackwell | Ampere |
| Compute capability | 10.0 | 8.6 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4 |
| Peak FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS | 2,250 TFLOPS | – |
| Peak FP8 tensor TFLOPS | 4,500 TFLOPS | – |
| NVLink / multi-GPU interconnect | NVLink 5, 1.8 TB/s per GPU | NVLink, 112.5 GB/s bidirectional |
| Max board power (TDP) | Up to 1,000W | 230W |
| Form factor | SXM | – |
| Regions | 3 | 2 |
On-demand price
| Rate | B200 | RTX A5000 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $8.79/GPU/hr | $0.297/GPU/hr |
Which is better for AI: B200 or RTX A5000?
Choose the B200 when 180 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX A5000 when 24 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
B200 vs RTX A5000: common questions
Is the B200 or the RTX A5000 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the B200 when 180 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX A5000 when 24 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
Is the B200 or the RTX A5000 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the B200 starts at $8.79/GPU/hr (median $8.79/GPU/hr) and the RTX A5000 starts at $0.176/GPU/hr (median $0.295/GPU/hr). The RTX A5000 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 98%.
What is the difference between the B200 and the RTX A5000?
The B200 has 180 GB of VRAM against the RTX A5000's 24 GB; the B200 is a Blackwell part and the RTX A5000 is Ampere (compute capability 10.0 vs 8.6); only the B200 supports FP8 compute. On price, the B200 lists from $8.79/GPU/hr and the RTX A5000 from $0.176/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the B200 and the RTX A5000?
The B200 is listed in 3 regions and the RTX A5000 in 2 regions right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the B200 vs the RTX A5000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $8,789 on the B200 and $176 on the RTX A5000, a difference of $8,613 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the B200 have compared to the RTX A5000?
The B200 has 180 GB of VRAM; the RTX A5000 has 24 GB.
Does the B200 or the RTX A5000 support NVLink?
Yes, both support a multi-GPU interconnect: the B200 has NVLink 5, 1.8 TB/s per GPU and the RTX A5000 has NVLink, 112.5 GB/s bidirectional.
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 B200 page and RTX A5000 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 B200 VRAM calculator and the RTX A5000 VRAM calculator, see vendor-published throughput in the GPU benchmarks and specs table, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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