A consumer GPU against a data center card, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 8 GB GDDR5X against 24 GB GDDR6 and 7% more memory bandwidth on the GTX 1080.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5X
- Memory bandwidth
- 320 GB/s
- From
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 300 GB/s
- From
- $0.32 /GPU/hr
- 19 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GTX 1080 | L4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.04 | $0.32 | 8x more expensive on L4 |
| Spot | $0.02 | $0.23 | 12x more expensive on L4 |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.32 | |
| Median | $0.05 | $0.90 | 20x more expensive on L4 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1080 vs L4 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1080 | L4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5X | 24 GB GDDR6 | 3x more on L4 |
| Bandwidth | 320 GB/s | 300 GB/s | 1.1x higher on GTX 1080 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 192-bit | 1.3x wider on GTX 1080 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 242 TFLOPS | L4 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 121 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | Not supported | 242 TOPS | L4 only |
| FP32 | 8.9 TFLOPS | 30.3 TFLOPS | 3.4x higher on L4 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 180 W | 72 W | 2.5x higher on GTX 1080 |
| Released | Q2 2016 | Q1 2023 | 7 years newer on L4 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1080 datasheet and L4 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 | L4 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.05 | On-Demand $0.32 |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0400 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.44 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.49 |
UpCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.69 |
Scaleway
|
-- | On-Demand $0.91 |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $1.04 |
Runcrate
|
-- | On-Demand $1.05 |
Hexabyte
|
-- | On-Demand $0.42 |
2 providers list the GTX 1080 and 19 the L4. Every listing is on the GTX 1080 page and the L4 page.
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1080 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia L4 on Sept. 7, 2026.