B300 vs RTX A5000: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the B300 when 288 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 B300 has 288 GB of VRAM; the RTX A5000 has 24 GB.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. B300 from $9.89/GPU/hr; RTX A5000 from $0.176/GPU/hr. The RTX A5000 is 98% cheaper at the entry rate.
B300
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
RTX A5000
Good for inference and small-scale training workloads
Last updated: 2026-10-10 22:00:36 UTCRefreshes hourly
Specs side by side
| Spec | B300 | RTX A5000 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 288 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | – | 768 GB/s |
| Architecture | Blackwell Ultra | Ampere |
| Compute capability | 10.3 | 8.6 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4 |
| NVLink / multi-GPU interconnect | – | NVLink, 112.5 GB/s bidirectional |
| Max board power (TDP) | – | 230W |
| Regions | 1 | 2 |
On-demand price
| Rate | B300 | RTX A5000 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $9.89/GPU/hr | $0.297/GPU/hr |
Which is better for AI: B300 or RTX A5000?
Choose the B300 when 288 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.
B300 vs RTX A5000: common questions
Is the B300 or the RTX A5000 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the B300 when 288 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 B300 or the RTX A5000 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the B300 starts at $9.89/GPU/hr (median $9.89/GPU/hr) and the RTX A5000 starts at $0.176/GPU/hr (median $0.296/GPU/hr). The RTX A5000 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 98%.
What is the difference between the B300 and the RTX A5000?
The B300 has 288 GB of VRAM against the RTX A5000's 24 GB; the B300 is a Blackwell Ultra part and the RTX A5000 is Ampere (compute capability 10.3 vs 8.6); only the B300 supports FP8 compute. On price, the B300 lists from $9.89/GPU/hr and the RTX A5000 from $0.176/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the B300 and the RTX A5000?
The B300 is listed in 1 region and the RTX A5000 in 2 regions right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the B300 vs the RTX A5000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $9,889 on the B300 and $176 on the RTX A5000, a difference of $9,713 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the B300 have compared to the RTX A5000?
The B300 has 288 GB of VRAM; the RTX A5000 has 24 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 B300 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 B300 VRAM calculator and the RTX A5000 VRAM calculator, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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