Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Pascal and one Turing: 8 GB GDDR5X against 8 GB GDDR6 and 40% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 2070.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5X
- Memory bandwidth
- 320 GB/s
- From
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.06 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GTX 1080 | RTX 2070 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.04 | $0.06 | 33% cheaper on GTX 1080 |
| Spot | $0.02 | $0.02 | Identical |
| Median | $0.05 | $0.08 | 44% 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 2070 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1080 | RTX 2070 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5X | 8 GB GDDR6 | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 320 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 1.4x higher on RTX 2070 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 256-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 29.9 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | Not supported | 119.4 TOPS | RTX 2070 only |
| FP32 | 8.9 TFLOPS | 7.5 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on GTX 1080 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 180 W | 175 W | Within 5% |
| Released | Q2 2016 | Q4 2018 | 2 years newer on RTX 2070 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1080 datasheet and RTX 2070 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 2070 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0400 | On-Demand $0.06 |
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.05 | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.10 |
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1080 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 2070 on Sept. 7, 2026.