A consumer GPU against a data center card, one Pascal and one Kepler: 11 GB GDDR5X against 12 GB GDDR5 and 2x the memory bandwidth on the GTX 1080 Ti.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 11 GB
- GDDR5X
- Memory bandwidth
- 484 GB/s
- From
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 240 GB/s
- From
- $0.90 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GTX 1080 Ti | K80 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.04 | $0.90 | 22x more expensive on K80 |
| Spot | $0.02 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.04 | |
| Median | $0.05 | $0.90 | 17x more expensive on K80 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1080 Ti vs K80 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1080 Ti | K80 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 11 GB GDDR5X | 12 GB GDDR5 | 1.1x more on K80 |
| Bandwidth | 484 GB/s | 240 GB/s | 2x higher on GTX 1080 Ti |
| Bus width | 352-bit | 384-bit | 1.1x wider on K80 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP32 | 11.3 TFLOPS | 4.4 TFLOPS | 2.6x higher on GTX 1080 Ti |
| FP64 | Not supported | 1.5 TFLOPS | K80 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 250 W | 150 W | 1.7x higher on GTX 1080 Ti |
| Released | Q1 2017 | Q4 2014 | 2 years newer on GTX 1080 Ti |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP32FP64 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1080 Ti datasheet and K80 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | GTX 1080 Ti /GPU/hr | K80 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0400 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.06 | -- |
AWS
|
-- | On-Demand $0.90 |
Database Mart
|
-- | Reserved (24mo) $0.0447 |
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia K80 on Sept. 7, 2026.