Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Turing and one Blackwell: 6 GB GDDR5 against 16 GB GDDR7 and 5x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 5080.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 6 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- From
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.12 /GPU/hr
- 5 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GTX 1660 | RTX 5080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.04 | $0.12 | 2.9x more expensive on RTX 5080 |
| Spot | $0.02 | $0.14 | 6.8x more expensive on RTX 5080 |
| Reserved | $0.19 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.36 | $0.31 | 14% cheaper on RTX 5080 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1660 vs RTX 5080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1660 | RTX 5080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 6 GB GDDR5 | 16 GB GDDR7 | 2.7x more on RTX 5080 |
| Bandwidth | 192 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 5x higher on RTX 5080 |
| Bus width | 192-bit | 256-bit | 1.3x wider on RTX 5080 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 900.4 TFLOPS | RTX 5080 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 225.1 TFLOPS | RTX 5080 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 10.1 TFLOPS | 112.6 TFLOPS | 11x higher on RTX 5080 |
| INT8 | Not supported | 450.2 TOPS | RTX 5080 only |
| FP32 | 5.0 TFLOPS | 56.3 TFLOPS | 11x higher on RTX 5080 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 120 W | 360 W | 3x higher on RTX 5080 |
| Released | Q1 2019 | Q1 2025 | 6 years newer on RTX 5080 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1660 datasheet and RTX 5080 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | GTX 1660 /GPU/hr | RTX 5080 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0400 | On-Demand $0.42 |
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.68 | On-Demand $0.16 |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.19 | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.12 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.39 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $0.31 |
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1660 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5080 on Sept. 7, 2026.