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title: "RTX 6000Ada vs RTX A6000: Specs & Price per Hour (2026) | PowerGPU"
description: "RTX 6000Ada vs RTX A6000: 48 vs 48 GB VRAM, 364 vs 155 FP16 TFLOPS, $0.467 vs $0.281/hr on PowerGPU. Specs side by side, live rental prices, which to rent."
url: https://powergpu.ai/compare/rtx-6000ada-vs-rtx-a6000
last_modified: 2026-09-14T11:04:20+00:00
prices_as_of: 2026-09-14
site: PowerGPU (powergpu.ai)
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Compare · prices checked 2026-09-14

# RTX 6000Ada vs RTX A6000: specs, price per hour, which to rent

NVIDIA RTX 6000Ada (48 GB, **$0.467** /hr) against NVIDIA RTX A6000 (48 GB, **$0.281** /hr): public specs side by side, live fixed prices from our sheet, what fits in each card's VRAM, and a verdict written for real workloads — both are rentable right now.

- [NVIDIA RTX 6000Ada Ada Lovelace · 48 GB GDDR6 · 364 FP16 TFLOPS · $0.467/hr on-demand · $0.233/hr interruptible · 34 online](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/rtx-6000ada)
- [NVIDIA RTX A6000 Ampere · 48 GB GDDR6 · 155 FP16 TFLOPS · $0.281/hr on-demand · $0.140/hr interruptible · 12 online](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/rtx-a6000)

## RTX 6000Ada vs RTX A6000 specifications

Public NVIDIA figures (dense, non-sparsity). The last column is RTX 6000Ada relative to RTX A6000.

| Spec | RTX 6000Ada | RTX A6000 | Difference |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace (2022) | Ampere (2020) | — |
| VRAM | 48 GB GDDR6 | 48 GB GDDR6 | same |
| Memory bandwidth | 960 GB/s | 768 GB/s | +25% |
| FP16 tensor (dense) | 364 TFLOPS | 155 TFLOPS | +135% |
| FP32 | 91.1 TFLOPS | 38.7 TFLOPS | +135% |
| CUDA cores | 18,176 | 10,752 | +69% |
| TDP | 300 W | 300 W | same |
| PCIe · NVLink | Gen 4.0 · no NVLink | Gen 4.0 · no NVLink | — |
| PowerScore (RTX 3090 = 100) | 256 | 109 | +135% |
| Max GPUs per machine | 8× | 4× | — |

## RTX 6000Ada vs RTX A6000 price per hour

Fixed rates from our sheet — every on-demand price is the marketplace median × 0.70, rounded down. Monthly = 730 hours.

| Rate | RTX 6000Ada | RTX A6000 | Cheaper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| On-demand, per GPU-hour | $0.467 | $0.281 | RTX A6000 (−40%) |
| Interruptible, per GPU-hour | $0.233 | $0.140 | RTX A6000 |
| Reserved (3 mo), per GPU-hour | $0.303 | $0.182 | RTX A6000 |
| On-demand, per month | $341 | $205 | RTX A6000 |
| Market median (reference) | $0.67 | $0.40 | — |
| $ per 1,000 FP16 TFLOP-hours | $1.28 | $1.81 | RTX 6000Ada (better value) |
| $ per GB of VRAM per hour | $0.0097 | $0.0059 | RTX A6000 (better value) |

Try a full month with storage and bandwidth in the [GPU cost calculator](https://powergpu.ai/calculator).

## What fits in VRAM: 48 GB vs 48 GB

| Workload | RTX 6000Ada | RTX A6000 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Largest LLM in FP16, one card | ~14B | ~14B |
| Largest LLM at 4-bit, one card | ~72B | ~72B |
| Flux dev (FP8, ~17 GB) | fits | fits |
| Wan 2.x 14B video (offloaded) | yes | yes |
| 70B 4-bit LLM on one card | yes | yes |

Rules of thumb: ~2.4 GB per billion parameters in FP16 all-in, ~0.62 GB in 4-bit. Full tables in the [VRAM guide](https://powergpu.ai/guides/llm-vram-requirements).

## Verdict: which should you rent?

Both are 48 GB workstation cards; the RTX 6000 Ada has about 2.3× the FP16 tensor throughput, 960 GB/s and newer drivers; the A6000 is the cheapest 48 GB rental on the sheet. Ada for speed, A6000 for capacity on a budget.

- **Cheaper per hour:** RTX A6000 ($0.281 vs $0.467, −40%).
- **More VRAM:** RTX 6000Ada (48 GB vs 48 GB).
- **More FP16 throughput:** RTX 6000Ada (about 2.3×).
- **Best value per TFLOP-hour:** RTX 6000Ada.
- **Best value per GB of VRAM:** RTX A6000.
- **Multi-GPU:** RTX 6000Ada over PCIe · RTX A6000 over PCIe.

## Related comparisons

[All comparisons](https://powergpu.ai/compare)

- [RTX PRO 6000 WS vs RTX 6000Ada $1.040 vs $0.467 per hour](https://powergpu.ai/compare/rtx-pro-6000-ws-vs-rtx-6000ada)
- [RTX A6000 vs RTX 4090 $0.281 vs $0.327 per hour](https://powergpu.ai/compare/rtx-a6000-vs-rtx-4090)

## RTX 6000Ada vs RTX A6000: FAQ

Deeper reading: [H100 vs H200 vs B200](https://powergpu.ai/guides/h100-vs-h200-vs-b200), [RTX 4090 vs RTX 5090](https://powergpu.ai/guides/rtx-4090-vs-rtx-5090), [how cloud GPU pricing works](https://powergpu.ai/guides/cloud-gpu-pricing-explained).

**Is the RTX 6000Ada faster than the RTX A6000?**

On dense FP16 tensor throughput the RTX 6000Ada leads by about 2.3× (364 vs 155 TFLOPS). Memory bandwidth matters as much for inference: RTX 6000Ada 960 GB/s vs RTX A6000 768 GB/s.

**Which is cheaper to rent, the RTX 6000Ada or the RTX A6000?**

The RTX A6000: $0.281/hr on-demand versus $0.467/hr — 40% less. Interruptible rates are $0.233 (RTX 6000Ada) and $0.140 (RTX A6000). Per TFLOP-hour the better value is the RTX 6000Ada.

**Which has more VRAM and what does that change?**

The RTX 6000Ada has 48 GB versus 48 GB. In LLM terms that is roughly a 14B FP16 model (or ~72B in 4-bit) on one card against 14B FP16 (~72B 4-bit). If the model does not fit, speed is irrelevant.

**Can I rent both on PowerGPU right now?**

Yes — 34 × RTX 6000Ada and 12 × RTX A6000 are online as this page renders, deployable in about 30 seconds, billed per second, paid in crypto with no KYC.

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