Nvidia GTX 1080
Pascal consumer GPU for legacy compute tasks.
- Arch
- Pascal
- Memory
- 8 GB GDDR5X
- Bandwidth
- 320 GB/s
- Released
- Q2 2016
Price history
Weekly median price per GPU per hour
Aggregating historical prices...
At a glance Updated 8 minutes ago
- Cheapest in stock
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- on-demand · 1x · Salad
- Median price (current)
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- 90-day trend
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- Coverage
- 2 providers
- 13 price points
Pricing & availability
How this list works
The two views
By provider shows one card per company, placed where its best offer ranked. By configuration lists every offer.
Order
What you can rent comes first: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. Priced offers rank ahead of quote-only, and on-demand ahead of other billing types.
Within a group, five factors set the order:
- Location: datacenter proximity, blended with provider HQ.
- Price: hourly price, per GPU and in total.
- Billing type: reserved ahead of spot, spot ahead of quote-only.
- Specs: more VRAM, vCPUs and RAM.
- Provider diversity: a provider's repeat rows rank slightly lower, so one company can't take all the top spots.
Search
We match the provider, its country, GPU model, form factor, billing type, availability and instance name. Matching is partial and case-insensitive. Everyday words work too, so "interruptible" finds spot and "sold out" finds out of stock.
Transparency and funding
- Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
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- Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.
Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
What can the GTX 1080 run?
One GTX 1080 has 8 GB of VRAM. Even at 4-bit, the weights of most modern AI models exceed the card's usable VRAM, and context adds KV cache on top. Below are some open-weight LLMs, with the estimated memory and GPUs each one needs.
Multi-node
| Model | Memory (INT4 / FP4) | GTX 1080s needed | Cost /hr | Cost /mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Qwen3.8-27B
27B
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19 GB
|
3
|
–
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–
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Gemma 4 31B
30.7B
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24 GB
|
4
|
–
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–
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GPT-OSS-120B
117B · 5.1B active
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68 GB
|
10
|
–
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–
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GLM-5.3-Flash
320B · 18B active
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178 GB
|
25
|
–
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–
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MiniMax-M3
428B · 23B active
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241 GB
|
34
|
–
|
–
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
552B · 16B active
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306 GB
|
43
|
–
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–
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Kimi K3
2.8T · 104B active
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1,545 GB
|
215
|
–
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–
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Estimates based on the median on-demand rate. Memory is weights plus FP16/BF16 KV cache at 32K context per request. GPU counts assume 90% of advertised VRAM is usable. No guarantee of runtime support, usable performance, or that a matching quantized build exists. How we estimate costs.
Technical Specifications
Nvidia GTX 1080 · Per GPU
| Compute · dense | |
|---|---|
| FP32 | 8.9 TFLOPS |
| Precision support | FP16FP32 |
| Memory | |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5X |
| Bandwidth | 320 GB/s |
| Bus width | 256-bit |
| ECC | No |
| Silicon | |
|---|---|
| Architecture | Pascal |
| Process | TSMC 16nm FinFET |
| Transistors | 7.2 billion |
| Shader cores | 2,560 CUDA cores |
| Compute units | 20 SMs |
| Fabric and host | |
|---|---|
| Host interface | PCIe 3.0 |
| Power | |
|---|---|
| Board power | 180 W |
| Cooling | Active |
Source: official Nvidia GTX 1080 datasheet.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does the GTX 1080 cost per hour?
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As of September 13, 2026, we track 13 configs from 2 providers. Prices are per GPU per hour.
Billing type Configs Cheapest On-demand
5
$0.04 (in stock, Salad)
Reserved
3
$0.03 (6 mo, in stock, Vast.ai)
Spot
5
$0.02 (in stock, Salad)
No median for on-demand, reserved and spot: we only show this when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type.
Who has the cheapest GTX 1080?
How much does the GTX 1080 cost per month?
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The cheapest verified in-stock estimate is $29 per month on-demand, $22 reserved (6 mo), $14 spot.
Where can I rent a GTX 1080?
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GetDeploying currently tracks GTX 1080 configs from 2 providers. Salad and Vast.ai have verified in-stock on-demand configs. See the full price comparison above for every provider and config.
How many GTX 1080 GPUs do I need?
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More than one: even at 4-bit, the weights of most modern AI models exceed one GTX 1080's usable VRAM, and context adds KV cache on top. Larger models run across multiple GPUs: the model table above shows the estimated memory and GPU count for popular open-weight LLMs.
Why choose the GTX 1080?
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8GB GDDR5X. Low-cost Pascal GPU for basic compute and legacy applications.
When is the GTX 1080 not a good fit?
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No Tensor Cores. FP16 is emulated, not hardware-accelerated. Only viable for legacy CUDA code or basic cloud desktop rendering.
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