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GTX 1080 vs GTX 1660

Nvidia GTX 1080 vs Nvidia GTX 1660

Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Pascal and one Turing: 8 GB GDDR5X against 6 GB GDDR5 and 67% more memory bandwidth on the GTX 1080.

At a glance

Updated 8 minutes ago

Nvidia GTX 1080

Memory: 8 GB; GDDR5X
Memory bandwidth: 320 GB/s
From: $0.04 /GPU/hr; 2 providers

Nvidia GTX 1660

Memory: 6 GB; GDDR5
Memory bandwidth: 192 GB/s
From: $0.04 /GPU/hr; 2 providers

Price comparison

Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.

Billing	GTX 1080	GTX 1660	Difference
On-demand	$0.04	$0.04	Identical
Spot	$0.02	$0.02	Identical
Reserved	No reserved listings	$0.19
Median	$0.05	$0.04	13% cheaper on GTX 1660

Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Price history

GTX 1080 vs GTX 1660 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	GTX 1080	GTX 1660	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR5X	6 GB GDDR5	1.3x more on GTX 1080
Bandwidth	320 GB/s	192 GB/s	1.7x higher on GTX 1080
Bus width	256-bit	192-bit	1.3x wider on GTX 1080
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16		10.1 TFLOPS
FP32	8.9 TFLOPS	5.0 TFLOPS	1.8x higher on GTX 1080
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	180 W	120 W	1.5x higher on GTX 1080
Released	Q2 2016	Q1 2019	3 years newer on GTX 1660
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32	FP16FP32

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

Source: GTX 1080 datasheet and GTX 1660 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider	GTX 1080 /GPU/hr	GTX 1660 /GPU/hr
Salad	On-Demand $0.0400	On-Demand $0.0400
Vast.ai	On-Demand $0.05	--
Database Mart	--	Reserved (24mo) $0.19

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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1080 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia GTX 1660 on Sept. 7, 2026.