Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti vs Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada

The RTX 4000 Ada is newer and has 82% more memory, while the GTX 1080 Ti has 34% more bandwidth. The GTX 1080 Ti is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

82% more on RTX 4000 Ada

GTX 1080 Ti: 11 GB

RTX 4000 Ada: 20 GB

Memory bandwidth

34% higher on GTX 1080 Ti

GTX 1080 Ti: 484 GB/s

RTX 4000 Ada: 360 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

86% cheaper on GTX 1080 Ti

GTX 1080 Ti: $0.04 /GPU/hr

RTX 4000 Ada: $0.28 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	GTX 1080 Ti	RTX 4000 Ada
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04	$0.74 /GPU/hr from $0.28
Reserved	No reserved listings	On request
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.02	No spot listings

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. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for on-demand and spot on the GTX 1080 Ti: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

GTX 1080 Ti vs RTX 4000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	GTX 1080 Ti	RTX 4000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	11 GB GDDR5X	20 GB GDDR6	82% more on RTX 4000 Ada
Bandwidth	484 GB/s	360 GB/s	34% higher on GTX 1080 Ti
Bus width	352-bit	160-bit	2.2x wider on GTX 1080 Ti
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	213.8 TFLOPS	RTX 4000 Ada only
FP16 / BF16		106.9 TFLOPS
FP32	11.3 TFLOPS	26.7 TFLOPS	2.4x higher on RTX 4000 Ada
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	250 W	130 W	92% higher on GTX 1080 Ti
Released	Q1 2017	Q3 2023	6 years newer on RTX 4000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: GTX 1080 Ti datasheet and RTX 4000 Ada datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	GTX 1080 Ti	RTX 4000 Ada
Salad Distributed	$0.0400 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.28 /GPU/hr On-demand
Akamai Cloud USA	--	$0.52 /GPU/hr On-demand
DigitalOcean USA	--	$0.76 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	On request Reserved
Sesterce France	--	$0.87 /GPU/hr On-demand