Nvidia A100 vs Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti

The A100 is newer, with 7.3x the memory and 3.1x the bandwidth. The RTX 2080 Ti is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

7.3x more on A100

A100: 80 GB

RTX 2080 Ti: 11 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.1x higher on A100

A100: 1,935 GB/s

RTX 2080 Ti: 616 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

78% cheaper on RTX 2080 Ti

A100: $0.37 /GPU/hr

RTX 2080 Ti: $0.08 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A100	RTX 2080 Ti
On-demand	$1.77 /GPU/hr from $0.37	-- /GPU/hr from $0.08
Reserved	$1.43 /GPU/hr from $0.36 (3 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	$0.96 /GPU/hr from $0.23	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04

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 on-demand and spot on the RTX 2080 Ti: 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

A100 vs RTX 2080 Ti price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A100	RTX 2080 Ti	Difference
Memory
Capacity	80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe	11 GB GDDR6	7.3x more on A100
Bandwidth	1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe	616 GB/s	3.1x higher on A100
Bus width	5,120-bit	352-bit	15x wider on A100
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	312 TFLOPS	53.8 TFLOPS	5.8x higher on A100
INT8	624 TOPS	215.2 TOPS	2.9x higher on A100
FP32	19.5 TFLOPS	13.4 TFLOPS	46% higher on A100
FP64	9.7 TFLOPS	Not supported	A100 only
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 600 GB/s	NVLink 100 GB/s	6x higher on A100
Board power	300 W	250 W	20% higher on A100
Released	Q2 2020	Q3 2018	2 years newer on A100
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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

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

Source: A100 datasheet and RTX 2080 Ti datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	A100	RTX 2080 Ti
Vast.ai USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.37 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Jarvislabs India	$0.89 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Lium Distributed	$1.01 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Thunder Compute USA	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Massed Compute USA	$1.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Packet·ai USA	$1.43 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand