Nvidia A16 vs Nvidia RTX 5080

The RTX 5080 is newer and has 4.8x the bandwidth, with the same 16 GB of memory.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

A16: 16 GB

RTX 5080: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

4.8x higher on RTX 5080

A16: 200 GB/s

RTX 5080: 960 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

A16: --

RTX 5080: $0.26 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A16	RTX 5080	Difference
On-demand	Sold out	$0.34 /GPU/hr from $0.26
Spot	No spot listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.15

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 spot on the RTX 5080: 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 RTX 5080 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 13 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A16	RTX 5080	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR7	Identical
Bandwidth	200 GB/s	960 GB/s	4.8x higher on RTX 5080
Bus width	128-bit	256-bit	2x wider on RTX 5080
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	900.4 TFLOPS	RTX 5080 only
FP8	Not supported	225.1 TFLOPS	RTX 5080 only
FP16 / BF16	17.9 TFLOPS	112.6 TFLOPS	6.3x higher on RTX 5080
INT8	35.9 TOPS	450.2 TOPS	13x higher on RTX 5080
FP32	4.5 TFLOPS	56.3 TFLOPS	13x higher on RTX 5080
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Released	Q2 2021	Q1 2025	4 years newer on RTX 5080
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: A16 datasheet and RTX 5080 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	RTX 5080
Sesterce France	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	--	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	--	$0.26 /GPU/hr On-demand
SwissGPU Switzerland	--	$0.30 /GPU/hr On-demand