Nvidia GTX 1080 vs Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000

The Quadro RTX 6000 is newer, with 3x the memory and 2.1x the bandwidth. The GTX 1080 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on Quadro RTX 6000

GTX 1080: 8 GB

Quadro RTX 6000: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.1x higher on Quadro RTX 6000

GTX 1080: 320 GB/s

Quadro RTX 6000: 672 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

70% cheaper on GTX 1080

GTX 1080: $0.04 /GPU/hr

Quadro RTX 6000: $0.13 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	GTX 1080	Quadro RTX 6000
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06 (1 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12 (12 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.02	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11

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 on-demand, reserved and spot on the Quadro RTX 6000: 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 Quadro RTX 6000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	GTX 1080	Quadro RTX 6000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR5X	24 GB GDDR6	3x more on Quadro RTX 6000
Bandwidth	320 GB/s	672 GB/s	2.1x higher on Quadro RTX 6000
Bus width	256-bit	384-bit	50% wider on Quadro RTX 6000
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16		130.5 TFLOPS
INT8	Not supported	261 TOPS	Quadro RTX 6000 only
FP32	8.9 TFLOPS	16.3 TFLOPS	84% higher on Quadro RTX 6000
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 100 GB/s	NVLink on Quadro RTX 6000 only
Board power	180 W	295 W	64% higher on Quadro RTX 6000
Released	Q2 2016	Q3 2018	2 years newer on Quadro RTX 6000
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: GTX 1080 datasheet and Quadro RTX 6000 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	Quadro RTX 6000
Vast.ai USA	$0.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	$0.0400 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Akamai Cloud USA	--	$1.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lambda Labs USA	--	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand