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K80 vs P100

The P100 offers Pascal with FP16, versus the K80's Kepler. Choose P100 for better performance at slightly higher cost.

Overview

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Legacy Kepler hardware, not viable for modern workloads.

Mid-Range Datacenter

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Legacy Pascal data center GPU for budget scientific computing.

Mid-Range Datacenter

Memory per GPU

1.3x more on P100
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12 GB GDDR5
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16 GB HBM2

Memory bandwidth

3x higher on P100
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240 GB/s
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732 GB/s

GPU interconnect

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PCIe only
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NVLink 160 GB/s

Precision support

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FP32 FP64
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FP16 FP32 FP64

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

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Kepler
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Pascal

Released

2 years newer on P100
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Q4 2014
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Q2 2016

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

4.5x higher on K80
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$0.90 / GPU / hr
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$0.20 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

1.6x higher on P100
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$0.90 / GPU / hr
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$1.43 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Spot floor

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No spot listings
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$0.13 / GPU / hr

Full price range

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$0.08 - $0.90 / GPU / hr
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$0.12 - $2.22 / GPU / hr

Lowest to highest listing per GPU-hour, across on-demand, spot, reserved and custom.

Providers listing it

4 more on P100
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2
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6

Price, last 90 days

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Too few providers pricing it
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−8%

Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market. Withheld where too few providers price the card, its history is too short, or its weekly print swings too hard to read as a trend.

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

Offers and availability

How this list works

Order

Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
  3. Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.

The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.

Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.

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Our data for Nvidia K80 was last updated on Aug. 21, 2026, and for Nvidia P100 on Aug. 21, 2026.