A consumer GPU against a data center card, one Pascal and one Hopper: 8 GB GDDR5X against 80 GB HBM3, 10x the memory bandwidth on the H100, and NVLink 900 GB/s on the H100 where the GTX 1080 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 3 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5X
- Memory bandwidth
- 320 GB/s
- From
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- Memory
- 80 GB
- HBM3 · 94 GB on NVL
- Memory bandwidth
- 3.35 TB/s
- 2,000 GB/s on PCIe · 3,938 GB/s on NVL
- From
- $1.50 /GPU/hr
- 53 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GTX 1080 | H100 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.04 | $1.50 | 38x more expensive on H100 |
| Spot | $0.02 | $0.35 | 18x more expensive on H100 |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $1.18 | |
| Median | $0.04 | $3.37 | 77x more expensive on H100 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1080 vs H100 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1080 | H100 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5X | 80 GB HBM3 94 GB on NVL | 10x more on H100 |
| Bandwidth | 320 GB/s | 3,350 GB/s 2,000 GB/s on PCIe 3,938 GB/s on NVL | 10x higher on H100 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 5,120-bit | 20x wider on H100 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 1,979 TFLOPS | H100 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 989.5 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | Not supported | 1,979 TOPS | H100 only |
| FP32 | 8.9 TFLOPS | 67 TFLOPS | 7.6x higher on H100 |
| FP64 | Not supported | 34 TFLOPS | H100 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 900 GB/s NVLink 600 GB/s on PCIe, NVL | NVLink on H100 only |
| Board power | 180 W | 700 W | 3.9x higher on H100 |
| Released | Q2 2016 | Q3 2022 | 6 years newer on H100 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8 | |
Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1080 datasheet and H100 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 | H100 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.0470 | On-Demand $1.73 |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0400 | -- |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $1.50 |
HyperAI
|
-- | On-Demand $1.80 |
UpCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $1.89 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $1.98 |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $2.19 |
Runcrate
|
-- | On-Demand $2.19 |
Koyeb
|
-- | On-Demand $2.50 |
2 providers list the GTX 1080 and 53 the H100. Every listing is on the GTX 1080 page and the H100 page.
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1080 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia H100 on Sept. 7, 2026.