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A40 vs GTX 1080 Ti

Nvidia A40 vs Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti

A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Pascal: 48 GB GDDR6 against 11 GB GDDR5X and 44% more memory bandwidth on the A40.

At a glance

Updated 7 minutes ago

Nvidia A40

Memory: 48 GB; GDDR6
Memory bandwidth: 696 GB/s
From: $0.49 /GPU/hr; 6 providers

Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti

Memory: 11 GB; GDDR5X
Memory bandwidth: 484 GB/s
From: $0.04 /GPU/hr; 2 providers

Price comparison

Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.

Billing	A40	GTX 1080 Ti	Difference
On-demand	$0.49	$0.04	12x more expensive on A40
Spot	No spot listings	$0.02
Reserved	$0.61	$0.04	14x more expensive on A40
Median	$0.77	$0.05	16x more expensive on A40

Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Price history

A40 vs GTX 1080 Ti price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A40	GTX 1080 Ti	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	11 GB GDDR5X	4.4x more on A40
Bandwidth	696 GB/s	484 GB/s	1.4x higher on A40
Bus width	384-bit	352-bit	1.1x wider on A40
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	149.7 TFLOPS
INT8	299.3 TOPS	Not supported	A40 only
FP32	37.4 TFLOPS	11.3 TFLOPS	3.3x higher on A40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	250 W	1.2x higher on A40
Released	Q4 2020	Q1 2017	4 years newer on A40
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32

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

Source: A40 datasheet and GTX 1080 Ti datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider	A40 /GPU/hr	GTX 1080 Ti /GPU/hr
Runpod	On-Demand $0.49	--
Exoscale	On-Demand $1.05	--
Database Mart	Reserved (24mo) $0.61	--
Utho	Reserved (36mo) $0.65	--
Sesterce	On-Demand $1.21	--
EmpirioLabs AI	On-Demand $1.49	--
Salad	--	On-Demand $0.0400
Vast.ai	--	On-Demand $0.05

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Our data for Nvidia A40 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti on Sept. 7, 2026.