A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Kepler and one Ada Lovelace: 12 GB GDDR5 against 20 GB GDDR6 and 50% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 4000 Ada.
At a glance
Updated 9 minutes ago- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 240 GB/s
- From
- $0.90 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- Memory
- 20 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- From
- $0.52 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | K80 | RTX 4000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.90 | $0.52 | 42% cheaper on RTX 4000 Ada |
| Reserved | $0.04 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.90 | $0.75 | 17% cheaper on RTX 4000 Ada |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
K80 vs RTX 4000 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | K80 | RTX 4000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 12 GB GDDR5 | 20 GB GDDR6 | 1.7x more on RTX 4000 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 240 GB/s | 360 GB/s | 1.5x higher on RTX 4000 Ada |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 160-bit | 2.4x wider on K80 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 213.8 TFLOPS | RTX 4000 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | Not supported | 106.9 TFLOPS | RTX 4000 Ada only |
| FP32 | 4.4 TFLOPS | 26.7 TFLOPS | 6.1x higher on RTX 4000 Ada |
| FP64 | 1.5 TFLOPS | Not supported | K80 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 150 W | 130 W | 1.2x higher on K80 |
| Released | Q4 2014 | Q3 2023 | 9 years newer on RTX 4000 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP32FP64 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: K80 datasheet and RTX 4000 Ada datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | K80 /GPU/hr | RTX 4000 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
AWS
|
On-Demand $0.90 | -- |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.0447 | -- |
Akamai Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.52 |
DigitalOcean
|
-- | On-Demand $0.76 |
Runpod
|
-- | Reservation on request |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $0.87 |
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Our data for Nvidia K80 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.