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GTX 1080 vs RTX 3050

Nvidia GTX 1080 vs Nvidia RTX 3050

Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Pascal and one Ampere: 8 GB GDDR5X against 8 GB GDDR6 and 43% more memory bandwidth on the GTX 1080.

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 3050

Memory: 8 GB; GDDR6
Memory bandwidth: 224 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 3050	Difference
On-demand	$0.04	$0.07	43% cheaper on GTX 1080
Spot	$0.02	$0.03	33% cheaper on GTX 1080
Median	$0.05	$0.07	35% 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 3050 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	GTX 1080	RTX 3050	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR5X	8 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	320 GB/s	224 GB/s	1.4x higher on GTX 1080
Bus width	256-bit	128-bit	2x wider on GTX 1080
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16		18.2 TFLOPS
INT8	Not supported	72.8 TOPS	RTX 3050 only
FP32	8.9 TFLOPS	9.1 TFLOPS	Within 5%
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	180 W	130 W	1.4x higher on GTX 1080
Released	Q2 2016	Q1 2022	6 years newer on RTX 3050
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: GTX 1080 datasheet and RTX 3050 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 3050 /GPU/hr
Salad	On-Demand $0.0400	On-Demand $0.07
Vast.ai	On-Demand $0.05	--

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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1080 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3050 on Sept. 7, 2026.