A data center GPU against a consumer card on the Ampere architecture: 40 GB HBM2 against 12 GB GDDR6X, 71% more memory bandwidth on the A800, and NVLink 400 GB/s on the A800 where the RTX 3080 Ti is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 40 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.55 TB/s
- From
- $1.18 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 912 GB/s
- From
- $0.20 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A800 | RTX 3080 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $1.18 | $0.20 | 5.9x more expensive on A800 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.08 | |
| Median | $1.18 | $0.53 | 2.2x more expensive on A800 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A800 vs RTX 3080 Ti price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A800 | RTX 3080 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 40 GB HBM2 | 12 GB GDDR6X | 3.3x more on A800 |
| Bandwidth | 1,555 GB/s | 912 GB/s | 1.7x higher on A800 |
| Bus width | 5,120-bit | 384-bit | 13x wider on A800 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 312 TFLOPS | 68.2 TFLOPS | 4.6x higher on A800 |
| INT8 | 623.5 TOPS | 272.8 TOPS | 2.3x higher on A800 |
| FP32 | 19.5 TFLOPS | 34.1 TFLOPS | 1.7x higher on RTX 3080 Ti |
| FP64 | 9.7 TFLOPS | Not supported | A800 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 400 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on A800 only |
| Board power | 240 W | 350 W | 1.5x higher on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Released | Q4 2022 | Q2 2021 | 17 months newer on A800 |
| 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: A800 datasheet and RTX 3080 Ti datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A800 /GPU/hr | RTX 3080 Ti /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
GPUhub
|
On-Demand $1.18 | -- |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.20 |
Exoscale
|
-- | On-Demand $0.79 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.18 |
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Our data for Nvidia A800 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti on Sept. 7, 2026.