RTX 2000 Ada vs V100: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the RTX 2000 Ada when your workload uses FP8 quantized inference or serving. Choose the V100 when your workload is BF16/FP32-only and FP8 buys you nothing.
Both the RTX 2000 Ada and the V100 ship with 16 GB of VRAM.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 2000 Ada from $0.264/GPU/hr; V100 from $0.088/GPU/hr. The V100 is 67% cheaper at the entry rate.
RTX 2000 Ada
Good for inference and light fine-tuning workloads
V100
Good for inference workloads on older-generation hardware
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Specs side by side
| Spec | RTX 2000 Ada | V100 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | – | 900 GB/s |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Volta |
| Compute capability | 8.9 | 7.0 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16 |
| Peak FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS | – | 125 TFLOPS (SXM2), 112 TFLOPS (PCIe) |
| NVLink / multi-GPU interconnect | – | NVLink, 300 GB/s (SXM2 only) |
| Max board power (TDP) | – | 300W (SXM2), 250W (PCIe) |
| Form factor | – | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Regions | 1 | 4 |
On-demand price
| Rate | RTX 2000 Ada | V100 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $0.264/GPU/hr | $0.088/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) |
Which is better for AI: RTX 2000 Ada or V100?
Choose the RTX 2000 Ada when your workload uses FP8 quantized inference or serving. Choose the V100 when your workload is BF16/FP32-only and FP8 buys you nothing.
RTX 2000 Ada vs V100: common questions
Is the RTX 2000 Ada or the V100 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the RTX 2000 Ada when your workload uses FP8 quantized inference or serving. Choose the V100 when your workload is BF16/FP32-only and FP8 buys you nothing.
Is the RTX 2000 Ada or the V100 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 2000 Ada starts at $0.264/GPU/hr (median $0.264/GPU/hr) and the V100 starts at $0.088/GPU/hr (median $0.187/GPU/hr). The V100 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 67%.
What is the difference between the RTX 2000 Ada and the V100?
Both cards report 16 GB of VRAM; the RTX 2000 Ada is an Ada Lovelace part and the V100 is Volta (compute capability 8.9 vs 7.0); only the RTX 2000 Ada supports BF16, FP8, INT4 compute. On price, the RTX 2000 Ada lists from $0.264/GPU/hr and the V100 from $0.088/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the RTX 2000 Ada and the V100?
The RTX 2000 Ada is listed in 1 region and the V100 in 4 regions right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 2000 Ada vs the V100?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $264 on the RTX 2000 Ada and $88 on the V100, a difference of $176 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the RTX 2000 Ada have compared to the V100?
Both the RTX 2000 Ada and the V100 ship with 16 GB of VRAM.
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 RTX 2000 Ada page and V100 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 RTX 2000 Ada VRAM calculator and the V100 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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