DGX A100 vs RTX A6000: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. DGX A100 from $1.38/GPU/hr across 1 provider; RTX A6000 from $0.330/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The RTX A6000 is 76% cheaper at the entry rate.
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DGX A100 vs RTX A6000: common questions
Is the DGX A100 or the RTX A6000 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the DGX A100 starts at $1.38/GPU/hr (median $1.38/GPU/hr across 1 provider) and the RTX A6000 starts at $0.330/GPU/hr (median $0.530/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The RTX A6000 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 76%.
What is the difference between the DGX A100 and the RTX A6000?
The DGX A100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX A6000's 48 GB; both are Ampere parts; both run BF16, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the DGX A100 lists from $1.38/GPU/hr and the RTX A6000 from $0.330/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the DGX A100 and the RTX A6000?
1 provider list the DGX A100 (Massed Compute) and 4 list the RTX A6000 (RunPod, Massed Compute, HyperStack and Vast.ai), across 1 and 4 regions respectively. Both are available from Massed Compute.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the DGX A100 vs the RTX A6000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $1,380 on the DGX A100 and $330 on the RTX A6000, a difference of $1,050 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.
