RTX A6000 vs A40: specs, price and which to rent
GPU Rent Hub rents both cards as dedicated bare metal in three United States datacenters, paid in Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, Monero, Solana or Litecoin with no identity verification. The RTX A6000 is 290 $US a month and the A40 is 240 $US a month. Everything below is measured, not argued.
What is the difference between the RTX A6000 and the A40?
Every figure is the one we rent against, taken from the same catalogue the dashboard prices from. Per-GPU-hour is the flat monthly price divided by 720 hours; you are never billed by the hour.
| RTX A6000 | A40 | |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | 48 GB GDDR6 ECC | 48 GB GDDR6 ECC |
| Memory bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 696 GB/s |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020) | Ampere (2020) |
| Cores | 10,752 CUDA · 336 Tensor · 84 RT | 10,752 CUDA · 336 Tensor · 84 RT |
| FP8 | not supported | not supported |
| FP16 | 309 TFLOPS (sparse) | 299 TFLOPS (sparse) |
| Interconnect | NVLink bridge · 112 GB/s (pairs) | NVLink bridge · 112 GB/s (pairs) |
| Board power | 300 W | 300 W |
| Host vCPU | 8 | 8 |
| Host RAM | 47 GB | 47 GB |
| Local NVMe | 500 GB | 500 GB |
| Weekly price | 82 $US | 68 $US |
| Monthly price | 290 $US | 240 $US |
| Per GPU-hour | 0,40 $US | 0,33 $US |
| Price per GB of VRAM | 6,04 $US | 5,00 $US |
| In stock now | 65 | 37 |
Which should you rent?
Both cards carry 48 GB, so capacity is not what decides this one. Bandwidth is 768 GB/s against 696 GB/s, and for single-stream token generation it is bandwidth that sets the speed, not the FLOPS figure on the spec sheet. The RTX A6000 costs 21% more per month, $290 against $240, or $0.40 against $0.33 per GPU-hour.
Rent the RTX A6000 when
48 GB of VRAM under $300 a month. The cheapest 48 GB card we rent, and it takes an NVLink bridge in pairs.
290 $US/mo · 82 $US/wk · specifications and stock
Rent the A40 when
Passive-cooled 48 GB for dense racks. 48 GB for $240 a month: $5 per gigabyte of VRAM, the cheapest ratio we offer.
240 $US/mo · 68 $US/wk · specifications and stock
Where each card is in stock
A dash means the card is on the waitlist in that region. The price is identical in all three, so choose on latency and stock, nothing else.
| Region | RTX A6000 | A40 |
|---|---|---|
| DFW-1Dallas, TX | 34 | 22 |
| IAD-1Ashburn, VA | 20 | 15 |
| PDX-1Hillsboro, OR | 11 | — |
RTX A6000 against A40
Is the RTX A6000 better than the A40?
What is the price difference between the RTX A6000 and the A40?
How much VRAM does the RTX A6000 have compared to the A40?
Can I rent either card without KYC?
Which one is available today?
Can I put several RTX A6000 cards in one machine?
Rent either one by the week or the month
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