A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 16 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB GDDR6X and 3.6x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 4080.
At a glance
Updated 3 minutes ago- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 200 GB/s
- From
- $0.47 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 717 GB/s
- From
- $0.13 /GPU/hr
- 7 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A16 | RTX 4080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.47 | $0.13 | 3.5x more expensive on A16 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.11 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.17 | |
| Median | $0.56 | $0.25 | 2.3x 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 RTX 4080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A16 | RTX 4080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6X | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 200 GB/s | 717 GB/s | 3.6x higher on RTX 4080 |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 256-bit | 2x wider on RTX 4080 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 194.9 TFLOPS | RTX 4080 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 17.9 TFLOPS | 97.5 TFLOPS | 5.4x higher on RTX 4080 |
| INT8 | 35.9 TOPS | 389.9 TOPS | 11x higher on RTX 4080 |
| FP32 | 4.5 TFLOPS | 48.7 TFLOPS | 11x higher on RTX 4080 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q4 2022 | 2 years newer on RTX 4080 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A16 datasheet and RTX 4080 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A16 /GPU/hr | RTX 4080 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vultr
|
On-Demand $0.47 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.56 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.56 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.13 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.17 |
GPUhub
|
-- | On-Demand $0.25 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.26 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.28 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $0.25 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.27 |
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Our data for Nvidia A16 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4080 on Sept. 7, 2026.