Nvidia A30 vs Nvidia GTX 1080

The A30 is newer, with 3x the memory and 2.9x the bandwidth. The GTX 1080 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on A30

A30: 24 GB

GTX 1080: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.9x higher on A30

A30: 933 GB/s

GTX 1080: 320 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

90% cheaper on GTX 1080

A30: $0.41 /GPU/hr

GTX 1080: $0.04 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A30	GTX 1080
On-demand	$0.69 /GPU/hr from $0.41	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04
Reserved	$0.58 /GPU/hr from $0.38 (12 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06 (1 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29	-- /GPU/hr from $0.02

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 A30 and on-demand, reserved and spot on the GTX 1080: 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

A30 vs GTX 1080 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A30	GTX 1080	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB HBM2	8 GB GDDR5X	3x more on A30
Bandwidth	933 GB/s	320 GB/s	2.9x higher on A30
Bus width		256-bit
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	165 TFLOPS
INT8	330 TOPS	Not supported	A30 only
FP32	10.3 TFLOPS	8.9 TFLOPS	16% higher on A30
FP64	5.2 TFLOPS	Not supported	A30 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	165 W	180 W	9% higher on GTX 1080
Released	Q2 2021	Q2 2016	5 years newer on A30
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP16FP32

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

Source: A30 datasheet and GTX 1080 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	A30	GTX 1080
Jarvislabs India	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Leafcloud Netherlands	$0.68 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$0.74 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Leaseweb Netherlands	$0.45 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
AceCloud India	$0.67 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Massed Compute USA	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Vast.ai USA	--	$0.05 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	--	$0.0400 /GPU/hr On-demand