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GTX 1080 vs RTX 2060 Super

Nvidia GTX 1080 vs Nvidia RTX 2060 Super

Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Pascal and one Turing: 8 GB GDDR5X against 8 GB GDDR6 and 40% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 2060 Super.

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 RTX 2060 Super

Memory: 8 GB; GDDR6
Memory bandwidth: 448 GB/s
From: $0.07 /GPU/hr; 1 provider

Price comparison

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

Billing	GTX 1080	RTX 2060 Super	Difference
On-demand	$0.04	$0.07	41% cheaper on GTX 1080
Spot	$0.02	$0.06	2.8x more expensive on RTX 2060 Super
Median	$0.05	$0.07	33% cheaper on GTX 1080

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

Price history

GTX 1080 vs RTX 2060 Super price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 14 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	GTX 1080	RTX 2060 Super	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR5X	8 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	320 GB/s	448 GB/s	1.4x higher on RTX 2060 Super
Bus width	256-bit	256-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16		28.7 TFLOPS
INT8	Not supported	114.8 TOPS	RTX 2060 Super only
FP32	8.9 TFLOPS	7.2 TFLOPS	1.2x higher on GTX 1080
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	180 W	175 W	Within 5%
Released	Q2 2016	Q3 2019	3 years newer on RTX 2060 Super
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: GTX 1080 datasheet and RTX 2060 Super 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	RTX 2060 Super /GPU/hr
Vast.ai	On-Demand $0.05	On-Demand $0.07
Salad	On-Demand $0.0400	--

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Nvidia RTX 2070

8 GB GDDR6 · 40% more bandwidth than the GTX 1080

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Nvidia RTX 2060

6 GB GDDR6 · 25% less bandwidth than the RTX 2060 Super

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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1080 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 2060 Super on Sept. 7, 2026.