A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Grace Hopper and one Blackwell: 96 GB HBM3 against 16 GB GDDR7, 4.2x the memory bandwidth on the GH200, and NVLink 900 GB/s on the GH200 where the RTX 5080 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 96 GB
- HBM3
- Memory bandwidth
- 4.00 TB/s
- From
- $6.50 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.12 /GPU/hr
- 5 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GH200 | RTX 5080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $6.50 | $0.12 | 56x more expensive on GH200 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.17 | |
| Median | $6.50 | $0.36 | 18x more expensive on GH200 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GH200 vs RTX 5080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GH200 | RTX 5080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 96 GB HBM3 | 16 GB GDDR7 | 6x more on GH200 |
| Bandwidth | 4,000 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 4.2x higher on GH200 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | ||
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 900.4 TFLOPS | RTX 5080 only |
| FP8 | 1,979 TFLOPS | 225.1 TFLOPS | 8.8x higher on GH200 |
| FP16 / BF16 | 989.5 TFLOPS | 112.6 TFLOPS | 8.8x higher on GH200 |
| INT8 | 1,979 TOPS | 450.2 TOPS | 4.4x higher on GH200 |
| FP32 | 67 TFLOPS | 56.3 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on GH200 |
| FP64 | 34 TFLOPS | Not supported | GH200 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 900 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on GH200 only |
| Released | Q2 2023 | Q1 2025 | 2 years newer on RTX 5080 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GH200 datasheet and RTX 5080 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | GH200 /GPU/hr | RTX 5080 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
CoreWeave
|
On-Demand $6.50 | -- |
Lambda Labs
|
On-Demand $2.29 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $2.52 | -- |
Vultr
|
Spot $1.99 | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.12 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.42 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $1.79 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $0.31 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.39 |
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Our data for Nvidia GH200 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5080 on Sept. 7, 2026.