Nvidia RTX A2000 vs Nvidia RTX 3080

The RTX A2000 has 20% more memory, while the RTX 3080 has 2.6x the bandwidth. The RTX 3080 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

20% more on RTX A2000

RTX A2000: 12 GB

RTX 3080: 10 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.6x higher on RTX 3080

RTX A2000: 288 GB/s

RTX 3080: 760 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

13% cheaper on RTX 3080

RTX A2000: $0.11 /GPU/hr

RTX 3080: $0.10 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX A2000	RTX 3080
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11	$0.15 /GPU/hr from $0.10
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $1.01 (1 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13 (3 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06

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, reserved and spot on the RTX A2000 and reserved and spot on the RTX 3080: 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

RTX A2000 vs RTX 3080 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX A2000	RTX 3080	Difference
Memory
Capacity	12 GB GDDR6	10 GB GDDR6X	20% more on RTX A2000
Bandwidth	288 GB/s	760 GB/s	2.6x higher on RTX 3080
Bus width	192-bit	320-bit	67% wider on RTX 3080
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	31.9 TFLOPS	59.5 TFLOPS	87% higher on RTX 3080
INT8		238 TOPS
FP32	8 TFLOPS	29.8 TFLOPS	3.7x higher on RTX 3080
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	70 W	320 W	4.6x higher on RTX 3080
Released	Q3 2021	Q3 2020	11 months newer on RTX A2000
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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: RTX A2000 datasheet and RTX 3080 datasheet.

Where to rent them

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

Provider	RTX A2000	RTX 3080
Vast.ai USA	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	$0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	--	$0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand