Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia A100

Previous-gen data center workhorse for AI training and inference.

High Performance Datacenter

Nvidia logo Nvidia GTX 1080

Pascal consumer GPU for legacy compute tasks.

Budget Consumer

Memory per GPU

10x more on A100
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80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe
Nvidia logo GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X

Memory bandwidth

6x higher on A100
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1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe
Nvidia logo GTX 1080
320 GB/s

GPU interconnect

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NVLink 600 GB/s
Nvidia logo GTX 1080
PCIe only

Precision support

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FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 FP64 INT4 INT8
Nvidia logo GTX 1080
FP16 FP32

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

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Ampere
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Pascal

Released

4 years newer on A100
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Q2 2020
Nvidia logo GTX 1080
Q2 2016

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

Source: A100 datasheet and GTX 1080 datasheet.

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

12x higher on A100
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$0.52 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo GTX 1080
$0.04 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

37x higher on A100
Nvidia logo A100
$1.77 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo GTX 1080
$0.05 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Spot floor

7x higher on A100
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$0.20 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo GTX 1080
$0.03 / GPU / hr

Full price range

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$0.20 - $5.04 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo GTX 1080
$0.03 - $0.05 / GPU / hr

Lowest to highest listing per GPU-hour, across on-demand, spot, reserved and custom.

Providers listing it

39 more on A100
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41
Nvidia logo GTX 1080
2

Price, last 90 days

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+2%
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Too few providers pricing it

Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market. Withheld where too few providers price the card, its history is too short, or its weekly print swings too hard to read as a trend.

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

Offers and availability

How this list works

Order

Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
  3. Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.

The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.

Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.

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Our data for Nvidia A100 was last updated on Aug. 21, 2026, and for Nvidia GTX 1080 on Aug. 21, 2026.