A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Kepler and one Maxwell: 12 GB GDDR5 against 8 GB GDDR5 and 25% more memory bandwidth on the K80.

At a glance

Memory

K80
12 GB
M4000
8 GB

1.5x more on K80

Memory bandwidth

K80
240 GB/s
M4000
192 GB/s

1.2x higher on K80

Cheapest on-demand

K80
$0.90 /GPU/hr
M4000
$0.45 /GPU/hr

2x more expensive on K80

Price comparison

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

Billing K80 M4000 Difference
On-demand -- /GPU/hr from $0.90 -- /GPU/hr from $0.45
Reserved -- /GPU/hr from $0.04 (24 mo) No reserved listings

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 and reserved on the K80 and on-demand on the M4000: 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

K80 vs M4000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months
Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec K80 M4000 Difference
Memory
Capacity 12 GB GDDR5 8 GB GDDR5 1.5x more on K80
Bandwidth 240 GB/s 192 GB/s 1.2x higher on K80
Bus width 384-bit 256-bit 1.5x wider on K80
Compute · dense
FP32 4.4 TFLOPS 2.6 TFLOPS 1.7x higher on K80
FP64 1.5 TFLOPS Not supported K80 only
Platform
Interconnect PCIe only PCIe only
Board power 150 W 120 W 1.2x higher on K80
Released Q4 2014 Q2 2015 7 months newer on M4000
Precision
Supported formats FP32FP64 FP32

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

Source: K80 datasheet and M4000 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider K80 /GPU/hr M4000 /GPU/hr
Amazon Web Services logo AWS On-Demand $0.90 --
Database Mart logo Database Mart Reserved (24mo) $0.0447 --
Paperspace logo Paperspace -- On-Demand $0.45

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Our data for Nvidia K80 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia M4000 on Sept. 7, 2026.