Nvidia A16 vs Nvidia K80

The K80 has 20% more bandwidth, while the A16 is newer and has 33% more memory. The A16 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

33% more on A16

A16: 16 GB

K80: 12 GB

Memory bandwidth

20% higher on K80

A16: 200 GB/s

K80: 240 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

88% cheaper on A16

A16: $0.11 /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	A16	K80
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11	-- /GPU/hr from $0.90
Reserved	No reserved listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04 (24 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07	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 on-demand and spot on the A16 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

A16 vs K80 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A16	K80	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR5	33% more on A16
Bandwidth	200 GB/s	240 GB/s	20% higher on K80
Bus width	128-bit	384-bit	3x wider on K80
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	17.9 TFLOPS	Not supported	A16 only
INT8	35.9 TOPS	Not supported	A16 only
FP32	4.5 TFLOPS	4.4 TFLOPS	Within 5%
FP64	Not supported	1.5 TFLOPS	K80 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Released	Q2 2021	Q4 2014	6 years newer on A16
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP32FP64

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

Source: A16 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	A16	K80
Vast.ai USA	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Vultr USA	$0.47 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
AWS USA	--	$0.90 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	--	$0.0447 /GPU/hr Reserved