Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Turing and one Ampere: 4 GB GDDR5 against 10 GB GDDR6X and 5.9x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 3080.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 4 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 128 GB/s
- From
- $0.02 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- Memory
- 10 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 760 GB/s
- From
- $0.11 /GPU/hr
- 5 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GTX 1650 | RTX 3080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.02 | $0.11 | 5.7x more expensive on RTX 3080 |
| Spot | $0.01 | $0.04 | 2.9x more expensive on RTX 3080 |
| Reserved | $0.14 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.02 | $0.16 | 8x more expensive on RTX 3080 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1650 vs RTX 3080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1650 | RTX 3080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 4 GB GDDR5 | 10 GB GDDR6X | 2.5x more on RTX 3080 |
| Bandwidth | 128 GB/s | 760 GB/s | 5.9x higher on RTX 3080 |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 320-bit | 2.5x wider on RTX 3080 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 6.0 TFLOPS | 59.5 TFLOPS | 10x higher on RTX 3080 |
| INT8 | Not supported | 238 TOPS | RTX 3080 only |
| FP32 | 3.0 TFLOPS | 29.8 TFLOPS | 10x higher on RTX 3080 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 75 W | 320 W | 4.3x higher on RTX 3080 |
| Released | Q2 2019 | Q3 2020 | 17 months newer on RTX 3080 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1650 datasheet and RTX 3080 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | GTX 1650 /GPU/hr | RTX 3080 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0200 | On-Demand $0.18 |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.14 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.11 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.14 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.21 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.17 |
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1650 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3080 on Sept. 7, 2026.