Lambda 1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 vs Akamai Cloud (Linode) Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1
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The same Quadro RTX 6000 at two providers, so the board is identical and everything else is not. Lambda 1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 takes 2 of 4 rounds against Akamai Cloud (Linode) Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1. It is also the cheaper of the two by the hour, at $0.69/GPU-hr against $1.50/GPU-hr.
LambdaWins 2 rounds1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000
1x Quadro RTX 6000 · 24 GB · 2.9¢/GB-hr
$0.69/GPU-hr$0.69/hr for the machine · $116 a week
Akamai Cloud (Linode)Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1
1x Quadro RTX 6000 · 24 GB · 6.3¢/GB-hr
$1.50/GPU-hr$1.50/hr for the machine · $252 a week
Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)
$0.69/GPU-hr
$1.50/GPU-hr
Interruptible rate (lower wins)
not published
not published
Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)
2.9¢/GB-hr
6.3¢/GB-hr
VRAM per GPU
24 GB
24 GB
GPUs per instance
1x Quadro RTX 6000
1x Quadro RTX 6000
vCPU
14
8
RAM
46 GB
32 GB
Included storage
512 GB
640 GB
Regions listed
none listed
none listed
What a run costs on each
- An hour of the machine$0.69/hr vs $1.50/hr
- A day$17 vs $36
- A week$116 vs $252
- A week on spotno spot price vs no spot price
Lambda, then Akamai Cloud (Linode), at the published rate with no commitment discount.
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Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Lambda 1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 or Akamai Cloud (Linode) Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1?
- Lambda 1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000, at $0.69/GPU-hr against $1.50/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 1 Nov 2026. On the whole machine that is $0.69/hr against $1.50/hr.
- Which holds more GPU memory?
- Both add up to 24 GB across the instance, at 24 GB and 24 GB a board.
- What would a week cost?
- $116 for Lambda 1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 and $252 for Akamai Cloud (Linode) Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1, at 168 hours of the whole machine at its published rate, with no commitment discount. Neither publishes an interruptible rate.
- What does the hourly price leave out?
- Lambda 1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000: disk 512 GB, no regions published, billed per minute. Akamai Cloud (Linode) Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1: disk 640 GB, no regions published, billed per hour. Egress and tax are extra on both.
Every rate is the on-demand price for one GPU for one hour, read 1 Nov 2026 from each provider's own page, so a node of eight is compared at what one of its GPUs costs. Storage, egress and tax are extra unless a row says otherwise, and reserved or committed rates are not indexed. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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