Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Pascal and one Ampere: 11 GB GDDR5X against 24 GB GDDR6X, 93% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 3090, and NVLink 112 GB/s on the RTX 3090 where the GTX 1080 Ti is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 11 GB
- GDDR5X
- Memory bandwidth
- 484 GB/s
- From
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 936 GB/s
- From
- $0.10 /GPU/hr
- 7 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GTX 1080 Ti | RTX 3090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.04 | $0.10 | 2.5x more expensive on RTX 3090 |
| Spot | $0.02 | $0.09 | 4.5x more expensive on RTX 3090 |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.06 | |
| Median | $0.05 | $0.31 | 5.9x more expensive on RTX 3090 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1080 Ti vs RTX 3090 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1080 Ti | RTX 3090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 11 GB GDDR5X | 24 GB GDDR6X | 2.2x more on RTX 3090 |
| Bandwidth | 484 GB/s | 936 GB/s | 1.9x higher on RTX 3090 |
| Bus width | 352-bit | 384-bit | 1.1x wider on RTX 3090 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 71.2 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | Not supported | 284.7 TOPS | RTX 3090 only |
| FP32 | 11.3 TFLOPS | 35.6 TFLOPS | 3.1x higher on RTX 3090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 112 GB/s | NVLink on RTX 3090 only |
| Board power | 250 W | 350 W | 1.4x higher on RTX 3090 |
| Released | Q1 2017 | Q3 2020 | 4 years newer on RTX 3090 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1080 Ti datasheet and RTX 3090 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 | RTX 3090 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0400 | On-Demand $0.25 |
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.06 | -- |
HyperAI
|
-- | On-Demand $0.10 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.13 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $0.31 |
TensorDock
|
-- | On-Demand $0.31 |
Runpod
|
-- | Reservation on request |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
-- | On-Demand $0.40 |
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3090 on Sept. 7, 2026.