A workstation GPU against a consumer card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 48 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB GDDR6X, 7% more memory bandwidth on the RTX A6000, and NVLink 112 GB/s on the RTX A6000 where the RTX 4080 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 768 GB/s
- From
- $0.35 /GPU/hr
- 18 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 | RTX A6000 | RTX 4080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.35 | $0.17 | 2x more expensive on RTX A6000 |
| Spot | $0.40 | $0.11 | 3.6x more expensive on RTX A6000 |
| Reserved | $0.35 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.56 | $0.25 | 2.2x more expensive on RTX A6000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX A6000 vs RTX 4080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX A6000 | RTX 4080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6X | 3x more on RTX A6000 |
| Bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 717 GB/s | 1.1x higher on RTX A6000 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 256-bit | 1.5x wider on RTX A6000 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 194.9 TFLOPS | RTX 4080 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 154.8 TFLOPS | 97.5 TFLOPS | 1.6x higher on RTX A6000 |
| INT8 | 309.7 TOPS | 389.9 TOPS | 1.3x higher on RTX 4080 |
| FP32 | 38.7 TFLOPS | 48.7 TFLOPS | 1.3x higher on RTX 4080 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 112 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on RTX A6000 only |
| Board power | 300 W | 320 W | 1.1x higher on RTX 4080 |
| Released | Q4 2020 | Q4 2022 | 2 years newer on RTX 4080 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX A6000 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 | RTX A6000 /GPU/hr | RTX 4080 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Thunder Compute
|
On-Demand $0.35 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.45 | -- |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $0.55 | -- |
Oblivus
|
On-Demand $0.55 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.55 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.63 | -- |
Koyeb
|
On-Demand $0.75 | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $0.90 | -- |
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 |
18 providers list the RTX A6000 and 6 the RTX 4080. Every listing is on the RTX A6000 page and the RTX 4080 page.
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Our data for Nvidia RTX A6000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4080 on Sept. 7, 2026.