RTX A6000 vs RTX PRO 5000: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the RTX PRO 5000 when your workload uses FP8 quantized inference or serving. Choose the RTX A6000 when your workload is BF16/FP32-only and FP8 buys you nothing.
Both the RTX A6000 and the RTX PRO 5000 ship with 48 GB of VRAM.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX A6000 from $0.363/GPU/hr; RTX PRO 5000 from $0.845/GPU/hr. The RTX A6000 is 57% cheaper at the entry rate.
RTX A6000
Good for training and inference on models that don't need FP8 kernels
RTX PRO 5000
Good for fine-tuning mid-size models and high-throughput inference
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Specs side by side
| Spec | RTX A6000 | RTX PRO 5000 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 48 GB | 48 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 1,344 GB/s |
| Architecture | Ampere | Blackwell |
| Compute capability | 8.6 | 12.0 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 |
| NVLink / multi-GPU interconnect | NVLink, 2-way | – |
| Max board power (TDP) | 300W | 300W |
| Regions | 4 | 2 |
On-demand price
| Rate | RTX A6000 | RTX PRO 5000 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $0.550/GPU/hr | $0.845/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) |
Which is better for AI: RTX A6000 or RTX PRO 5000?
Choose the RTX PRO 5000 when your workload uses FP8 quantized inference or serving. Choose the RTX A6000 when your workload is BF16/FP32-only and FP8 buys you nothing.
RTX A6000 vs RTX PRO 5000: common questions
Is the RTX A6000 or the RTX PRO 5000 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the RTX PRO 5000 when your workload uses FP8 quantized inference or serving. Choose the RTX A6000 when your workload is BF16/FP32-only and FP8 buys you nothing.
Is the RTX A6000 or the RTX PRO 5000 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX A6000 starts at $0.363/GPU/hr (median $0.626/GPU/hr) and the RTX PRO 5000 starts at $0.845/GPU/hr (median $0.958/GPU/hr). The RTX A6000 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 57%.
What is the difference between the RTX A6000 and the RTX PRO 5000?
Both cards report 48 GB of VRAM; the RTX A6000 is an Ampere part and the RTX PRO 5000 is Blackwell (compute capability 8.6 vs 12.0); only the RTX PRO 5000 supports FP8 compute. On price, the RTX A6000 lists from $0.363/GPU/hr and the RTX PRO 5000 from $0.845/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the RTX A6000 and the RTX PRO 5000?
The RTX A6000 is listed in 4 regions and the RTX PRO 5000 in 2 regions right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX A6000 vs the RTX PRO 5000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $363 on the RTX A6000 and $845 on the RTX PRO 5000, a difference of $482 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the RTX A6000 have compared to the RTX PRO 5000?
Both the RTX A6000 and the RTX PRO 5000 ship with 48 GB of VRAM.
Does the RTX A6000 or the RTX PRO 5000 support NVLink?
The RTX A6000 supports NVLink, 2-way; the RTX PRO 5000 has no dedicated GPU-to-GPU interconnect.
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 A6000 page and RTX PRO 5000 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 A6000 VRAM calculator and the RTX PRO 5000 VRAM calculator, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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Related reading: RTX A6000 pricing and specs, and RTX A6000 guide.
