A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Pascal: 16 GB GDDR6 against 11 GB GDDR5X and 2.4x the memory bandwidth on the GTX 1080 Ti.
At a glance
Updated 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 200 GB/s
- From
- $0.47 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
- Memory
- 11 GB
- GDDR5X
- Memory bandwidth
- 484 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 | A16 | GTX 1080 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.47 | $0.04 | 12x more expensive on A16 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.02 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.04 | |
| Median | $0.56 | $0.05 | 11x more expensive on A16 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A16 vs GTX 1080 Ti price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A16 | GTX 1080 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB GDDR6 | 11 GB GDDR5X | 1.5x more on A16 |
| Bandwidth | 200 GB/s | 484 GB/s | 2.4x higher on GTX 1080 Ti |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 352-bit | 2.8x wider on GTX 1080 Ti |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 17.9 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | 35.9 TOPS | Not supported | A16 only |
| FP32 | 4.5 TFLOPS | 11.3 TFLOPS | 2.5x higher on GTX 1080 Ti |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q1 2017 | 4 years newer on A16 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A16 datasheet and GTX 1080 Ti datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A16 /GPU/hr | GTX 1080 Ti /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vultr
|
On-Demand $0.47 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.56 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.56 | -- |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.0400 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.05 |
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Our data for Nvidia A16 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti on Sept. 7, 2026.