A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Grace Blackwell and one Ampere: 186 GB HBM3e against 10 GB GDDR6X, 11x the memory bandwidth on the GB200, and NVLink 1,800 GB/s on the GB200 where the RTX 3080 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 9 minutes ago- Memory
- 186 GB
- HBM3e
- Memory bandwidth
- 8.00 TB/s
- From
- $10.50 /GPU/hr
- 8 providers
- Memory
- 10 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 760 GB/s
- From
- $0.18 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GB200 | RTX 3080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $10.50 | $0.18 | 58x more expensive on GB200 |
| Spot | $27.04 | $0.06 | 451x more expensive on GB200 |
| Reserved | $10.58 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $16.00 | $0.18 | 89x more expensive on GB200 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GB200 vs RTX 3080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GB200 | RTX 3080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 186 GB HBM3e | 10 GB GDDR6X | 19x more on GB200 |
| Bandwidth | 8,000 GB/s | 760 GB/s | 11x higher on GB200 |
| Bus width | 320-bit | ||
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | 10,000 TFLOPS | Not supported | GB200 only |
| FP8 | 5,000 TFLOPS | Not supported | GB200 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 2,500 TFLOPS | 59.5 TFLOPS | 42x higher on GB200 |
| INT8 | 5,000 TOPS | 238 TOPS | 21x higher on GB200 |
| FP32 | 80 TFLOPS | 29.8 TFLOPS | 2.7x higher on GB200 |
| FP64 | 40 TFLOPS | Not supported | GB200 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 1,800 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on GB200 only |
| Board power | 1,200 W | 320 W | 3.8x higher on GB200 |
| Released | Q1 2024 | Q3 2020 | 4 years newer on GB200 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP4FP6FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8 | 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: GB200 datasheet and RTX 3080 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | GB200 /GPU/hr | RTX 3080 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
CoreWeave
|
On-Demand $10.50 | -- |
Oracle Cloud
|
On-Demand $16.00 | -- |
Azure
|
On-Demand $27.04 | -- |
AWS
|
Reservation $10.58 | -- |
CUDO
|
Custom on request | -- |
Canopy Wave
|
Custom on request | -- |
Nebius
|
Custom on request | -- |
Together AI
|
Custom on request | -- |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.18 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.17 |
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Our data for Nvidia GB200 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3080 on Sept. 7, 2026.