A consumer GPU against a data center card, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 8 GB GDDR5X against 48 GB GDDR6 and 2.7x the memory bandwidth on the L40.
At a glance
Updated 22 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5X
- Memory bandwidth
- 320 GB/s
- From
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.78 /GPU/hr
- 12 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GTX 1080 | L40 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.04 | $0.78 | 20x more expensive on L40 |
| Spot | $0.02 | $0.77 | 39x more expensive on L40 |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.70 | |
| Median | $0.04 | $1.05 | 26x more expensive on L40 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1080 vs L40 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1080 | L40 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5X | 48 GB GDDR6 | 6x more on L40 |
| Bandwidth | 320 GB/s | 864 GB/s | 2.7x higher on L40 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 384-bit | 1.5x wider on L40 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 362 TFLOPS | L40 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 181.1 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | Not supported | 362 TOPS | L40 only |
| FP32 | 8.9 TFLOPS | 90.5 TFLOPS | 10x higher on L40 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 180 W | 300 W | 1.7x higher on L40 |
| Released | Q2 2016 | Q4 2022 | 6 years newer on L40 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1080 datasheet and L40 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 | L40 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0400 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.78 |
Thunder Compute
|
-- | On-Demand $0.79 |
Massed Compute
|
-- | On-Demand $0.86 |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $0.97 |
Runcrate
|
-- | On-Demand $0.97 |
Oblivus
|
-- | On-Demand $1.05 |
Spheron
|
-- | On-Demand $1.06 |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
-- | On-Demand $1.50 |
1 provider list the GTX 1080 and 12 the L40. Every listing is on the GTX 1080 page and the L40 page.
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1080 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia L40 on Sept. 7, 2026.