Nvidia GTX 1080 vs Nvidia RTX 5060

The RTX 5060 is newer and has 40% more bandwidth, with the same 8 GB of memory. The GTX 1080 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

GTX 1080: 8 GB

RTX 5060: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

40% higher on RTX 5060

GTX 1080: 320 GB/s

RTX 5060: 448 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

55% cheaper on GTX 1080

GTX 1080: $0.04 /GPU/hr

RTX 5060: $0.09 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	GTX 1080	RTX 5060
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04	$0.11 /GPU/hr from $0.09
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03 (6 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12 (24 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.02	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for on-demand, reserved and spot on the GTX 1080 and reserved and spot on the RTX 5060: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

GTX 1080 vs RTX 5060 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	GTX 1080	RTX 5060	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR5X	8 GB GDDR7	Identical
Bandwidth	320 GB/s	448 GB/s	40% higher on RTX 5060
Bus width	256-bit	128-bit	2x wider on GTX 1080
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	307 TFLOPS	RTX 5060 only
FP8	Not supported	76.8 TFLOPS	RTX 5060 only
FP16 / BF16		38.4 TFLOPS
INT8	Not supported	153.6 TOPS	RTX 5060 only
FP32	8.9 TFLOPS	19.2 TFLOPS	2.2x higher on RTX 5060
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	180 W	145 W	24% higher on GTX 1080
Released	Q2 2016	Q2 2025	9 years newer on RTX 5060
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: GTX 1080 datasheet and RTX 5060 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	GTX 1080	RTX 5060
Salad Distributed	$0.0400 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand
Vast.ai USA	$0.0485 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.09 /GPU/hr On-demand
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	--	$0.12 /GPU/hr Reserved