A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Turing: 48 GB GDDR6 against 8 GB GDDR6, 55% more memory bandwidth on the A40, and NVLink 50 GB/s on the RTX 2080 where the A40 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 696 GB/s
- From
- $0.49 /GPU/hr
- 6 providers
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.08 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A40 | RTX 2080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.49 | $0.08 | 6.1x more expensive on A40 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.05 | |
| Reserved | $0.61 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.77 | $0.08 | 9.6x 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 RTX 2080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A40 | RTX 2080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 6x more on A40 |
| Bandwidth | 696 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 1.6x higher on A40 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 256-bit | 1.5x wider on A40 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 149.7 TFLOPS | 40.3 TFLOPS | 3.7x higher on A40 |
| INT8 | 299.3 TOPS | 161.1 TOPS | 1.9x higher on A40 |
| FP32 | 37.4 TFLOPS | 10 TFLOPS | 3.7x higher on A40 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 50 GB/s | NVLink on RTX 2080 only |
| Board power | 300 W | 215 W | 1.4x higher on A40 |
| Released | Q4 2020 | Q3 2018 | 2 years newer on A40 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A40 datasheet and RTX 2080 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A40 /GPU/hr | RTX 2080 /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 $0.08 |
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Our data for Nvidia A40 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 2080 on Sept. 7, 2026.