Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Pascal and one Blackwell: 8 GB GDDR5X against 32 GB GDDR7 and 5.6x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 5090.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5X
- Memory bandwidth
- 320 GB/s
- From
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- Memory
- 32 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.79 TB/s
- From
- $0.35 /GPU/hr
- 20 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GTX 1080 | RTX 5090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.04 | $0.35 | 8.8x more expensive on RTX 5090 |
| Spot | $0.02 | $0.25 | 12x more expensive on RTX 5090 |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.21 | |
| Median | $0.05 | $0.69 | 15x more expensive on RTX 5090 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1080 vs RTX 5090 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1080 | RTX 5090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5X | 32 GB GDDR7 | 4x more on RTX 5090 |
| Bandwidth | 320 GB/s | 1,792 GB/s | 5.6x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 512-bit | 2x wider on RTX 5090 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 1,676 TFLOPS | RTX 5090 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 419 TFLOPS | RTX 5090 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 209.5 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | Not supported | 838 TOPS | RTX 5090 only |
| FP32 | 8.9 TFLOPS | 104.8 TFLOPS | 12x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 180 W | 575 W | 3.2x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Released | Q2 2016 | Q1 2025 | 9 years newer on RTX 5090 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1080 datasheet and RTX 5090 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 5090 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0400 | On-Demand $0.45 |
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.05 | On-Demand $10.67 |
HyperAI
|
-- | On-Demand $0.35 |
GPUhub
|
-- | On-Demand $0.46 |
Nova Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.63 |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.69 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.82 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $53.34 |
2 providers list the GTX 1080 and 20 the RTX 5090. Every listing is on the GTX 1080 page and the RTX 5090 page.
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1080 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5090 on Sept. 7, 2026.