Nvidia A30 vs Nvidia RTX 3080

The A30 has 2.4x the memory and 23% more bandwidth. The RTX 3080 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

2.4x more on A30

A30: 24 GB

RTX 3080: 10 GB

Memory bandwidth

23% higher on A30

A30: 933 GB/s

RTX 3080: 760 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

76% cheaper on RTX 3080

A30: $0.41 /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	A30	RTX 3080	Difference
On-demand	$0.69 /GPU/hr from $0.41	$0.14 /GPU/hr from $0.10	80% cheaper on RTX 3080
Reserved	$0.58 /GPU/hr from $0.38 (12 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12 (3 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29	-- /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 spot on the A30 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

A30 vs RTX 3080 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A30	RTX 3080	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB HBM2	10 GB GDDR6X	2.4x more on A30
Bandwidth	933 GB/s	760 GB/s	23% higher on A30
Bus width		320-bit
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	165 TFLOPS	59.5 TFLOPS	2.8x higher on A30
INT8	330 TOPS	238 TOPS	39% higher on A30
FP32	10.3 TFLOPS	29.8 TFLOPS	2.9x higher on RTX 3080
FP64	5.2 TFLOPS	Not supported	A30 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	165 W	320 W	94% higher on RTX 3080
Released	Q2 2021	Q3 2020	7 months newer on A30
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	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: A30 datasheet and RTX 3080 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	RTX 3080
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	--	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	--	$0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand