Nvidia A30 vs Nvidia K80

The A30 is newer, with 2x the memory and 3.9x the bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on A30

A30: 24 GB

K80: 12 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.9x higher on A30

A30: 933 GB/s

K80: 240 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

54% cheaper on A30

A30: $0.41 /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	A30	K80
On-demand	$0.69 /GPU/hr from $0.41	-- /GPU/hr from $0.90
Reserved	$0.58 /GPU/hr from $0.38 (12 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04 (24 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29	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 spot on the A30 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

A30 vs K80 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A30	K80	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB HBM2	12 GB GDDR5	2x more on A30
Bandwidth	933 GB/s	240 GB/s	3.9x higher on A30
Bus width		384-bit
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	165 TFLOPS	Not supported	A30 only
INT8	330 TOPS	Not supported	A30 only
FP32	10.3 TFLOPS	4.4 TFLOPS	2.4x higher on A30
FP64	5.2 TFLOPS	1.5 TFLOPS	3.6x higher on A30
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	165 W	150 W	10% higher on A30
Released	Q2 2021	Q4 2014	6 years newer on A30
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP32FP64

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

Source: A30 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	A30	K80
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	--
AWS USA	--	$0.90 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	--	$0.0447 /GPU/hr Reserved