AMD Radeon Pro V520
vs
Nvidia GTX 1080
A data center GPU against a consumer card, one RDNA and one Pascal: 8 GB HBM2 against 8 GB GDDR5X and 60% more memory bandwidth on the Radeon Pro V520.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 512 GB/s
- From
- $0.38 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5X
- Memory bandwidth
- 320 GB/s
- From
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | Radeon Pro V520 | GTX 1080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.38 | $0.04 | 9.5x more expensive on Radeon Pro V520 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.02 | |
| Reserved | $0.19 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.87 | $0.05 | 19x more expensive on Radeon Pro V520 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
Radeon Pro V520 vs GTX 1080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | Radeon Pro V520 | GTX 1080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB HBM2 | 8 GB GDDR5X | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 512 GB/s | 320 GB/s | 1.6x higher on Radeon Pro V520 |
| Bus width | 2,048-bit | 256-bit | 8x wider on Radeon Pro V520 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 14.8 TFLOPS | ||
| FP32 | 7.4 TFLOPS | 8.9 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on GTX 1080 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 225 W | 180 W | 1.2x higher on Radeon Pro V520 |
| Released | Q2 2020 | Q2 2016 | 4 years newer on Radeon Pro V520 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: Radeon Pro V520 datasheet and GTX 1080 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | Radeon Pro V520 /GPU/hr | GTX 1080 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
AWS
|
On-Demand $0.38 | -- |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.0400 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.05 |
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Our data for AMD Radeon Pro V520 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia GTX 1080 on Sept. 7, 2026.