NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPU: Specs, VRAM, Price & Benchmarks (2026)
The NVIDIA RTX A5000 (24GB GDDR6 with ECC) launched in 2021. This guide covers its full specs, VRAM, SXM/PCIe differences where they apply, AI performance, and live per-GPU rental pricing on Aquanode.
Short answer on cost: the RTX A5000 rents from $0.176 per GPU per hour on Aquanode. Out of capacity right now.
How much VRAM does the RTX A5000 have?
The RTX A5000 has 24GB GDDR6 with ECC, with 768 GB/s of peak memory bandwidth.
What fits in 24GB GDDR6 with ECC of VRAM
| Model | Precision | Fits? |
|---|---|---|
| Llama 3 8B | BF16 | roughly 16GB. Fits with a modest KV-cache budget. |
| Mistral 7B | BF16 | ~14GB. Fits comfortably. |
| Mixtral 8x7B | INT4 | ~24GB. Right at the limit; expect to need offload. |
| Llama 3.1 70B | INT4 | ~35-40GB. Does not fit on a single 24GB card. |
Approximate, based on published parameter counts and standard bytes-per-parameter rules of thumb (FP16 ≈ 2 bytes/param, INT4 ≈ 0.5-0.6 bytes/param). Real footprint also depends on KV-cache size and framework overhead.
What can the RTX A5000 run?
Popular open models from small to frontier scale, with the memory each needs and how many RTX A5000 cards (24GB GDDR6 with ECC each) that takes.
| Model | As published | FP8 | INT4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen/Qwen3-8B 8.2B | BF16: ~18.3 GB, 1 GPU | FP8: not supported | INT4: ~4.6 GB, 1 GPU |
| Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct 14.8B | BF16: ~33 GB, 2 GPUs | FP8: not supported | INT4: ~8.3 GB, 1 GPU |
| Qwen/Qwen3-32B 32.8B | BF16: ~73.2 GB, 4 GPUs | FP8: not supported | INT4: ~18.3 GB, 1 GPU |
| Qwen/Qwen-72B 72.3B | BF16: ~162 GB, 7 GPUs | FP8: not supported | INT4: ~40.4 GB, 2 GPUs |
| MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7 228.7B | FP8: not supported | – | INT4: ~128 GB, 6 GPUs |
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 684.5B | FP8: not supported | – | INT4: ~383 GB, 16 GPUs |
Estimates: weights at the stated precision plus a flat 20% for KV cache and overhead, at a moderate context length. A dash means the precision is not offered for that model (it is already published at that size). INT4 needs a published quantized checkpoint. Open any model for a per-GPU breakdown, or use the RTX A5000 VRAM calculator.
RTX A5000 VRAM calculator: check which models fit in its memory at each precision.
All models that fit in 24 GB: the open models whose weights and overhead fit, at native, FP8 and INT4 precision.
RTX A5000 specs
| Architecture | NVIDIA, launched 2021 |
| VRAM | 24GB GDDR6 with ECC |
| Memory bandwidth | 768 GB/s |
| Interconnect | NVLink, 112.5 GB/s bidirectional |
| TDP | 230W |
| Form factor | PCIe, dual-slot |
Specs sourced from the vendor's public datasheet/product page. See the source.
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RTX A5000 AI performance
A 230W workstation card with 24GB of ECC memory and a real NVLink bridge. The same VRAM as an RTX 4090 or 3090 but with error correction and half the power draw, which is what makes it worth renting for a long fine-tuning run you can't afford to have corrupted.
- Memory bandwidth: 768 GB/s
Ampere, so no FP8 tensor cores and no FP8 serving. 768 GB/s is well under what the HBM data-center parts do, and 24GB rules out 70B-class models even in INT4 without offload.
The cheapest RTX A5000 offer right now ($0.176/GPU/hr) is about 41% below the market median of $0.296/GPU/hr. Out of capacity right now.
RTX A5000 price: what does it cost?
Renting. The cheapest current on-demand rate for the RTX A5000 on Aquanode is $0.297/GPU/hr. Live rates range from $0.176 to $0.297 per GPU per hour, with a median of $0.296/GPU/hr. Billed by the offer's own terms; the table below shows every live rate. Out of capacity right now.
| Region | $/GPU/hr | Available | VRAM | vCPU | RAM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | $0.176 | 0 | 24 GB | – | – |
| Ireland, Ie | $0.295 | 4 | 24 GB | 6.3 | 100.8 GB |
RTX A5000 price history
Aquanode stores one snapshot of its GPU price index per UTC day. For the RTX A5000 that is 5 days so far, 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-10, so this is a short history, not a long-run trend. The lowest per-GPU rate was $0.176 on both 2026-10-06 and 2026-10-10.
| Day (UTC) | Lowest per GPU hour | Median per GPU hour | Data-center lowest per GPU hour | Offers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-10 | $0.176 | $0.237 | $0.297 | 16 |
| 2026-10-09 | $0.176 | $0.297 | $0.297 | 17 |
| 2026-10-08 | $0.176 | $0.297 | $0.297 | 20 |
| 2026-10-07 | $0.176 | $0.297 | $0.297 | 22 |
| 2026-10-06 | $0.176 | $0.297 | $0.297 | 20 |
Each row is the stored daily snapshot of the live index, copied as recorded. A dash means that day stored no figure. The same series is available as JSON and summarised in the monthly GPU price report.
How this price is calculated
All prices on this page are normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using each offer's authoritative GPU count, so that raw price is divided by the number of GPUs it actually covers; some offers report price as already per-GPU, so those are used as-listed. An offer with a missing, zero, or invalid GPU count is excluded entirely rather than published at a guessed rate.
No offers were excluded from this snapshot for a missing or invalid price. No offers were dropped as price outliers in this snapshot.
Only the cheapest qualifying offer per provider is shown in the table above. This page regenerates at most once per hour.
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Rent a RTX A5000 on Aquanode
- On-demand instances from $0.176/GPU/hr, billed by the provider's own terms, with no hardware procurement or long-term commitment.
- 18 live offers across 2 regions today.
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Good for
A 230W workstation card with 24GB of ECC memory and a real NVLink bridge. The same VRAM as an RTX 4090 or 3090 but with error correction and half the power draw, which is what makes it worth renting for a long fine-tuning run you can't afford to have corrupted.
Not good for
Ampere, so no FP8 tensor cores and no FP8 serving. 768 GB/s is well under what the HBM data-center parts do, and 24GB rules out 70B-class models even in INT4 without offload.
RTX A5000 FAQs
How much VRAM does the RTX A5000 have?
The RTX A5000 has 24GB GDDR6 with ECC, with 768 GB/s of peak memory bandwidth.
What is the NVIDIA RTX A5000?
The NVIDIA RTX A5000 is a GPU released in 2021, with 24GB GDDR6 with ECC of memory and a 230W power envelope. See the full spec table above for interconnect, form factor and tensor-throughput details.
How much does it cost to rent a RTX A5000?
Live RTX A5000 rental prices currently range from $0.176 to $0.297 per GPU per hour, with a median of $0.296 per GPU per hour. Out of capacity right now.
What's the cheapest RTX A5000 rate?
The lowest current RTX A5000 rate on Aquanode is $0.176 per GPU per hour in . Out of capacity right now.
What is the RTX A5000 good for?
A 230W workstation card with 24GB of ECC memory and a real NVLink bridge. The same VRAM as an RTX 4090 or 3090 but with error correction and half the power draw, which is what makes it worth renting for a long fine-tuning run you can't afford to have corrupted.
What are the RTX A5000's limitations?
Ampere, so no FP8 tensor cores and no FP8 serving. 768 GB/s is well under what the HBM data-center parts do, and 24GB rules out 70B-class models even in INT4 without offload.
Is renting cheaper than buying?
Renting avoids the upfront hardware cost and lets you match spend to actual usage. A rented RTX A5000 at $0.176/hr only costs money while it's running, whereas buying ties up capital in hardware that keeps depreciating whether it's in use or not. Which is cheaper depends on how continuously you'd run it; short or bursty workloads usually favor renting. Out of capacity right now.
How is the RTX A5000 price calculated?
All prices are normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using each offer's authoritative GPU count, which the raw price is divided by; some offers report price as already per-GPU. Offers whose price can't be safely normalized, or whose rate is an extreme outlier against the rest of the market, are excluded.
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