Nvidia GTX 1080 vs Nvidia K80

The K80 has 50% more memory, while the GTX 1080 is newer and has 33% more bandwidth. The GTX 1080 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

50% more on K80

GTX 1080: 8 GB

K80: 12 GB

Memory bandwidth

33% higher on GTX 1080

GTX 1080: 320 GB/s

K80: 240 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

96% cheaper on GTX 1080

GTX 1080: $0.04 /GPU/hr

K80: $0.90 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	GTX 1080	K80
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04	-- /GPU/hr from $0.90
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.05 (1 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04 (24 mo)
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, reserved and spot on the GTX 1080 and on-demand and reserved on the K80: 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 vs K80 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	GTX 1080	K80	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR5X	12 GB GDDR5	50% more on K80
Bandwidth	320 GB/s	240 GB/s	33% higher on GTX 1080
Bus width	256-bit	384-bit	50% wider on K80
Compute · dense
FP32	8.9 TFLOPS	4.4 TFLOPS	2x higher on GTX 1080
FP64	Not supported	1.5 TFLOPS	K80 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	180 W	150 W	20% higher on GTX 1080
Released	Q2 2016	Q4 2014	2 years newer on GTX 1080
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32	FP32FP64

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

Source: GTX 1080 datasheet and K80 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	K80
Salad Distributed	$0.0400 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Vast.ai USA	$0.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
AWS USA	--	$0.90 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	--	$0.0447 /GPU/hr Reserved