Nvidia K80 vs Nvidia RTX 5050

The K80 has 50% more memory, while the RTX 5050 is newer and has 33% more bandwidth. The RTX 5050 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

50% more on K80

K80: 12 GB

RTX 5050: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

33% higher on RTX 5050

K80: 240 GB/s

RTX 5050: 320 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

92% cheaper on RTX 5050

K80: $0.90 /GPU/hr

RTX 5050: $0.07 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	K80	RTX 5050
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.90	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.08 (24 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	No spot listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03

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 and spot on the RTX 5050: 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 RTX 5050 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	K80	RTX 5050	Difference
Memory
Capacity	12 GB GDDR5	8 GB GDDR6	50% more on K80
Bandwidth	240 GB/s	320 GB/s	33% higher on RTX 5050
Bus width	384-bit	128-bit	3x wider on K80
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	210.5 TFLOPS	RTX 5050 only
FP8	Not supported	52.6 TFLOPS	RTX 5050 only
FP16 / BF16	Not supported	26.3 TFLOPS	RTX 5050 only
INT8	Not supported	105.3 TOPS	RTX 5050 only
FP32	4.4 TFLOPS	13.2 TFLOPS	3x higher on RTX 5050
FP64	1.5 TFLOPS	Not supported	K80 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	150 W	130 W	15% higher on K80
Released	Q4 2014	Q3 2025	11 years newer on RTX 5050
Precision
Supported formats	FP32FP64	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8