A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 24 GB HBM2 against 16 GB GDDR6X and 30% more memory bandwidth on the A30.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 933 GB/s
- From
- $0.70 /GPU/hr
- 7 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 717 GB/s
- From
- $0.17 /GPU/hr
- 6 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A30 | RTX 4080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.70 | $0.17 | 4x more expensive on A30 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.11 | |
| Reserved | $0.43 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.77 | $0.25 | 3.1x more expensive on A30 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A30 vs RTX 4080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A30 | RTX 4080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB HBM2 | 16 GB GDDR6X | 1.5x more on A30 |
| Bandwidth | 933 GB/s | 717 GB/s | 1.3x higher on A30 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | ||
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 194.9 TFLOPS | RTX 4080 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 165 TFLOPS | 97.5 TFLOPS | 1.7x higher on A30 |
| INT8 | 330 TOPS | 389.9 TOPS | 1.2x higher on RTX 4080 |
| FP32 | 10.3 TFLOPS | 48.7 TFLOPS | 4.7x higher on RTX 4080 |
| FP64 | 5.2 TFLOPS | Not supported | A30 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 165 W | 320 W | 1.9x higher on RTX 4080 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q4 2022 | 2 years newer on RTX 4080 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A30 datasheet and RTX 4080 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A30 /GPU/hr | RTX 4080 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Leafcloud
|
On-Demand $0.70 | -- |
Exoscale
|
On-Demand $0.74 | -- |
Leaseweb
|
Reserved (1mo) $0.43 | -- |
AceCloud
|
Reserved (12mo) $0.67 | -- |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $0.35 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.39 | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $0.55 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.17 |
GPUhub
|
-- | On-Demand $0.25 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.26 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.28 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $0.25 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.27 |
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Our data for Nvidia A30 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4080 on Sept. 7, 2026.