A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Kepler and one Turing: 12 GB GDDR5 against 16 GB GDDR6, 87% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 5000, and NVLink 50 GB/s on the RTX 5000 where the K80 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 8 hours ago- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 240 GB/s
- From
- $0.90 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.60 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | K80 | RTX 5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.90 | $0.60 | 33% cheaper on RTX 5000 |
| Reserved | $0.04 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.90 | $0.71 | 21% cheaper on RTX 5000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
K80 vs RTX 5000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | K80 | RTX 5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 12 GB GDDR5 | 16 GB GDDR6 | 1.3x more on RTX 5000 |
| Bandwidth | 240 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 1.9x higher on RTX 5000 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 256-bit | 1.5x wider on K80 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | Not supported | 89.2 TFLOPS | RTX 5000 only |
| INT8 | Not supported | 178.4 TOPS | RTX 5000 only |
| FP32 | 4.4 TFLOPS | 11.2 TFLOPS | 2.6x higher on RTX 5000 |
| FP64 | 1.5 TFLOPS | Not supported | K80 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 50 GB/s | NVLink on RTX 5000 only |
| Board power | 150 W | 265 W | 1.8x higher on RTX 5000 |
| Released | Q4 2014 | Q3 2018 | 4 years newer on RTX 5000 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP32FP64 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: K80 datasheet and RTX 5000 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 5000 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
AWS
|
On-Demand $0.90 | -- |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.0447 | -- |
OVH
|
-- | On-Demand $0.60 |
Paperspace
|
-- | On-Demand $0.82 |
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Our data for Nvidia K80 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5000 on Sept. 7, 2026.