DGX A100 vs RTX PRO 5000: 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 PRO 5000 from $0.820/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The RTX PRO 5000 is 41% cheaper at the entry rate.

DGX A100
Good for training and inference on models that don't need FP8 kernels
$1.38/hr
Lowest / GPU
$1.38/hr
Median / GPU
80 GB
VRAM
Ampere
Architecture
RTX PRO 5000
Good for fine-tuning mid-size models and high-throughput inference
$0.820/hr
Lowest / GPU
$0.820/hr
Median / GPU
48 GB
VRAM
Blackwell
Architecture

Specs side by side

Spec
DGX A100
RTX PRO 5000
VRAM
80 GB
48 GB
Architecture
Ampere
Blackwell
Compute capability
8.0
12.0
Precisions in hardware
FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4
FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4
Interconnect
PCIe
Lowest $/GPU/hr
$1.38
$0.820
Median $/GPU/hr
$1.38
$0.820
Providers
1
1
Regions
1
1

Price by provider

Provider
DGX A100 $/GPU/hr
RTX PRO 5000 $/GPU/hr
RunPod
$0.820
Massed Compute
$1.38

DGX A100 vs RTX PRO 5000: common questions

Is the DGX A100 or the RTX PRO 5000 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 PRO 5000 starts at $0.820/GPU/hr (median $0.820/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The RTX PRO 5000 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 41%.

What is the difference between the DGX A100 and the RTX PRO 5000?

The DGX A100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX PRO 5000's 48 GB; the DGX A100 is an Ampere part and the RTX PRO 5000 is Blackwell (compute capability 8.0 vs 12.0); only the RTX PRO 5000 supports FP8 compute. On price, the DGX A100 lists from $1.38/GPU/hr and the RTX PRO 5000 from $0.820/GPU/hr.

Which cloud providers offer the DGX A100 and the RTX PRO 5000?

1 provider list the DGX A100 (Massed Compute) and 1 list the RTX PRO 5000 (RunPod), across 1 and 1 region respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.

How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the DGX A100 vs the RTX PRO 5000?

At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $1,380 on the DGX A100 and $820 on the RTX PRO 5000, a difference of $560 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.

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