Nvidia K80 vs Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000

The Quadro RTX 6000 is newer, with 2x the memory and 2.8x the bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on Quadro RTX 6000

K80: 12 GB

Quadro RTX 6000: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.8x higher on Quadro RTX 6000

K80: 240 GB/s

Quadro RTX 6000: 672 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

85% cheaper on Quadro RTX 6000

K80: $0.90 /GPU/hr

Quadro RTX 6000: $0.13 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	K80	Quadro RTX 6000	Difference
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.90	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04 (24 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12 (12 mo)

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 reserved on the Quadro RTX 6000: 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 Quadro RTX 6000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	K80	Quadro RTX 6000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	12 GB GDDR5	24 GB GDDR6	2x more on Quadro RTX 6000
Bandwidth	240 GB/s	672 GB/s	2.8x higher on Quadro RTX 6000
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	Not supported	130.5 TFLOPS	Quadro RTX 6000 only
INT8	Not supported	261 TOPS	Quadro RTX 6000 only
FP32	4.4 TFLOPS	16.3 TFLOPS	3.7x higher on Quadro RTX 6000
FP64	1.5 TFLOPS	Not supported	K80 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 100 GB/s	NVLink on Quadro RTX 6000 only
Board power	150 W	295 W	97% higher on Quadro RTX 6000
Released	Q4 2014	Q3 2018	4 years newer on Quadro RTX 6000
Precision
Supported formats	FP32FP64	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: K80 datasheet and Quadro RTX 6000 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	K80	Quadro RTX 6000
AWS USA	$0.90 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Database Mart USA	$0.0447 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Vast.ai USA	--	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand
Akamai Cloud USA	--	$1.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lambda Labs USA	--	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand