Nvidia A10 vs Nvidia K80

The A10 is newer, with 2x the memory and 2.5x the bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on A10

A10: 24 GB

K80: 12 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.5x higher on A10

A10: 600 GB/s

K80: 240 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

74% cheaper on A10

A10: $0.23 /GPU/hr

K80: $0.90 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	A10	K80
On-demand	$1.42 /GPU/hr from $0.23	-- /GPU/hr from $0.90
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.71 (12 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04 (24 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.59	No spot listings

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for reserved and spot on the A10 and on-demand and reserved on the K80: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

A10 vs K80 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A10	K80	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR5	2x more on A10
Bandwidth	600 GB/s	240 GB/s	2.5x higher on A10
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	125 TFLOPS	Not supported	A10 only
INT8	250 TOPS	Not supported	A10 only
FP32	31.2 TFLOPS	4.4 TFLOPS	7.1x higher on A10
FP64	Not supported	1.5 TFLOPS	K80 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	150 W	150 W	Identical
Released	Q2 2021	Q4 2014	6 years newer on A10
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP32FP64

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: A10 datasheet and K80 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	A10	K80
Vast.ai USA	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lambda Labs USA	$1.29 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Sesterce France	$1.42 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$1.68 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
OVH France	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Cerebrium USA	$1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Alibaba Cloud China	$1.27 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Oracle Cloud USA	$2.00 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
AWS USA	--	$0.90 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	--	$0.0447 /GPU/hr Reserved