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GTX 1080 Ti vs RTX 3090 Ti

Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti vs Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti

Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Pascal and one Ampere: 11 GB GDDR5X against 24 GB GDDR6X and 2.1x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 3090 Ti.

At a glance

Updated 9 minutes ago

Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti

Memory: 11 GB; GDDR5X
Memory bandwidth: 484 GB/s
From: $0.04 /GPU/hr; 2 providers

Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti

Memory: 24 GB; GDDR6X
Memory bandwidth: 1.01 TB/s
From: $0.28 /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	RTX 3090 Ti	Difference
On-demand	$0.04	$0.28	7x more expensive on RTX 3090 Ti
Spot	$0.02	$0.10	5x more expensive on RTX 3090 Ti
Median	$0.05	$0.28	5.3x more expensive on RTX 3090 Ti

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 Ti price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	GTX 1080 Ti	RTX 3090 Ti	Difference
Memory
Capacity	11 GB GDDR5X	24 GB GDDR6X	2.2x more on RTX 3090 Ti
Bandwidth	484 GB/s	1,008 GB/s	2.1x higher on RTX 3090 Ti
Bus width	352-bit	384-bit	1.1x wider on RTX 3090 Ti
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16		80 TFLOPS
INT8	Not supported	320 TOPS	RTX 3090 Ti only
FP32	11.3 TFLOPS	40 TFLOPS	3.5x higher on RTX 3090 Ti
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	250 W	450 W	1.8x higher on RTX 3090 Ti
Released	Q1 2017	Q1 2022	5 years newer on RTX 3090 Ti
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: GTX 1080 Ti datasheet and RTX 3090 Ti 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 Ti /GPU/hr
Salad	On-Demand $0.0400	On-Demand $0.28
Vast.ai	On-Demand $0.06	--
Runpod	--	On-Demand $0.27

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Nvidia RTX 3090

24 GB GDDR6X · 93% more bandwidth than the GTX 1080 Ti

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Nvidia RTX 3060

12 GB GDDR6 · 26% less bandwidth than the GTX 1080 Ti

From $0.05 /GPU/hr Compare
Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti

11 GB GDDR6 · 27% more bandwidth than the GTX 1080 Ti

From $0.10 /GPU/hr Compare
Nvidia RTX 5090

32 GB GDDR7 · 78% more bandwidth than the RTX 3090 Ti

From $0.35 /GPU/hr Compare
Nvidia RTX 4090

24 GB GDDR6X · released Q4 2022

From $0.23 /GPU/hr Compare

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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti on Sept. 7, 2026.