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K80 vs T4

The T4 offers Turing with Tensor Cores at similar cost, versus the K80's Kepler. Choose T4 for any modern workload.

Overview

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The Nvidia K80 is a data center GPU on the Kepler architecture, released Q4 2014, with 12 GB GDDR5 and 240 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Mid-Range Datacenter

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The Nvidia T4 is a data center GPU on the Turing architecture, released Q3 2018, with 16 GB GDDR6 and 300 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Mid-Range Datacenter

Memory per GPU

1.3x more on T4
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12 GB GDDR5
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16 GB GDDR6

Memory bandwidth

1.2x higher on T4
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240 GB/s
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300 GB/s

GPU interconnect

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PCIe only
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PCIe only

Peak performance (FP32)

1.9x higher on T4
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4.4 TFLOPS
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8.1 TFLOPS

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

FP32 per watt

4x higher on T4
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0.03 TFLOPS/W
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0.12 TFLOPS/W

Board power

2.1x higher on K80
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150 W
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70 W

Precision support

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FP32 FP64
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FP16 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

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Kepler
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Turing

Released

4 years newer on T4
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Q4 2014
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Q3 2018

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

7.2x higher on K80
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$0.90 / GPU / hr
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$0.12 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

1.1x higher on K80
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$0.90 / GPU / hr
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$0.81 / 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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$0.06 / GPU / hr

Providers listing it

8 more on T4
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2
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10

Price, last 90 days

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Too few providers pricing it
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−6%

Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market.

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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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. 31, 2026, and for Nvidia T4 on Aug. 31, 2026.