H200 vs RTX A5000: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the H200 when 141 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 H200 has 141 GB of VRAM; the RTX A5000 has 24 GB.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. H200 from $3.95/GPU/hr across 5 providers; RTX A5000 from $0.176/GPU/hr across 2 providers. The RTX A5000 is 96% cheaper at the entry rate.
H200
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
RTX A5000
Good for inference and small-scale training workloads
Last updated: 2026-10-06 15:36:20 UTCRefreshes hourly
Specs side by side
| Spec | H200 | RTX A5000 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 141 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 4.8 TB/s | 768 GB/s |
| Architecture | Hopper | Ampere |
| Compute capability | 9.0 | 8.6 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, 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 | NVLink, 112.5 GB/s bidirectional |
| Max board power (TDP) | Up to 700W (configurable) | 230W |
| Form factor | SXM | – |
| Providers | 5 | 2 |
| Regions | 5 | 2 |
On-demand price
| Rate | H200 | RTX A5000 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $3.98/GPU/hr | $0.297/GPU/hr |
Which is better for AI: H200 or RTX A5000?
Choose the H200 when 141 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.
H200 vs RTX A5000: common questions
Is the H200 or the RTX A5000 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the H200 when 141 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 H200 or the RTX A5000 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the H200 starts at $3.95/GPU/hr (median $5.05/GPU/hr across 5 providers) and the RTX A5000 starts at $0.176/GPU/hr (median $0.297/GPU/hr across 2 providers). The RTX A5000 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 96%.
What is the difference between the H200 and the RTX A5000?
The H200 has 141 GB of VRAM against the RTX A5000's 24 GB; the H200 is a Hopper part and the RTX A5000 is Ampere (compute capability 9.0 vs 8.6); only the H200 supports FP8 compute. On price, the H200 lists from $3.95/GPU/hr and the RTX A5000 from $0.176/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the H200 and the RTX A5000?
5 providers list the H200 and 2 list the RTX A5000, across 5 and 2 regions respectively. 2 providers currently list both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the H200 vs the RTX A5000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $3,949 on the H200 and $176 on the RTX A5000, a difference of $3,773 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the H200 have compared to the RTX A5000?
The H200 has 141 GB of VRAM; the RTX A5000 has 24 GB.
Does the H200 or the RTX A5000 support NVLink?
Yes, both support a multi-GPU interconnect: the H200 has NVLink 4, 900 GB/s bidirectional 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 H200 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.
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