H100 vs RTX 5000 Ada: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the H100 when 80 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 5000 Ada when 32 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
The H100 has 80 GB of VRAM; the RTX 5000 Ada has 32 GB.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. H100 from $2.19/GPU/hr; RTX 5000 Ada from $0.539/GPU/hr. The RTX 5000 Ada is 75% cheaper at the entry rate.
H100
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
RTX 5000 Ada
Good for inference and light fine-tuning workloads
Last updated: 2026-10-10 22:01:39 UTCRefreshes hourly
Specs side by side
| Spec | H100 | RTX 5000 Ada |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 80 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 3.35 TB/s | – |
| Architecture | Hopper | Ada Lovelace |
| Compute capability | 9.0 | 8.9 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 |
| Peak FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS | 989 TFLOPS | – |
| Peak FP8 tensor TFLOPS | 1,979 TFLOPS | – |
| NVLink / multi-GPU interconnect | NVLink 4, 900 GB/s bidirectional | – |
| Max board power (TDP) | Up to 700W (configurable) | – |
| Form factor | SXM5 | – |
| Regions | 8 | 1 |
On-demand price
| Rate | H100 | RTX 5000 Ada |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $2.78/GPU/hr | $0.539/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) |
Which is better for AI: H100 or RTX 5000 Ada?
Choose the H100 when 80 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 5000 Ada when 32 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
H100 vs RTX 5000 Ada: common questions
Is the H100 or the RTX 5000 Ada better for AI?
Short answer: choose the H100 when 80 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 5000 Ada when 32 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
Is the H100 or the RTX 5000 Ada cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the H100 starts at $2.19/GPU/hr (median $3.76/GPU/hr) and the RTX 5000 Ada starts at $0.539/GPU/hr (median $0.539/GPU/hr). The RTX 5000 Ada is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 75%.
What is the difference between the H100 and the RTX 5000 Ada?
The H100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX 5000 Ada's 32 GB; the H100 is a Hopper part and the RTX 5000 Ada is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 9.0 vs 8.9); both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the H100 lists from $2.19/GPU/hr and the RTX 5000 Ada from $0.539/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the H100 and the RTX 5000 Ada?
The H100 is listed in 8 regions and the RTX 5000 Ada in 1 region right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the H100 vs the RTX 5000 Ada?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $2,189 on the H100 and $539 on the RTX 5000 Ada, a difference of $1,650 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the H100 have compared to the RTX 5000 Ada?
The H100 has 80 GB of VRAM; the RTX 5000 Ada has 32 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 H100 page and RTX 5000 Ada 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 H100 VRAM calculator and the RTX 5000 Ada 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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