RTX 6000 Ada vs RTX A6000: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 6000 Ada from $0.735/GPU/hr across 4 providers; RTX A6000 from $0.500/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The RTX A6000 is 32% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 6000 Ada vs RTX A6000: common questions
Is the RTX 6000 Ada or the RTX A6000 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 6000 Ada starts at $0.735/GPU/hr (median $0.840/GPU/hr across 4 providers) and the RTX A6000 starts at $0.500/GPU/hr (median $0.530/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The RTX A6000 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 32%.
What is the difference between the RTX 6000 Ada and the RTX A6000?
Both cards report 48 GB of VRAM; the RTX 6000 Ada is an Ada Lovelace part and the RTX A6000 is Ampere (compute capability 8.9 vs 8.6); only the RTX 6000 Ada supports FP8 compute. On price, the RTX 6000 Ada lists from $0.735/GPU/hr and the RTX A6000 from $0.500/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 6000 Ada and the RTX A6000?
4 providers list the RTX 6000 Ada (Vast.ai, RunPod, Massed Compute and DataCrunch) and 3 list the RTX A6000 (Massed Compute, RunPod and Vast.ai), across 4 and 3 regions respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai, RunPod and Massed Compute.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 6000 Ada vs the RTX A6000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $735 on the RTX 6000 Ada and $500 on the RTX A6000 — a difference of $235 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.
