Nvidia K80 vs Nvidia T4

The T4 is newer, with 33% more memory and 25% more bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

33% more on T4

K80: 12 GB

T4: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

25% higher on T4

K80: 240 GB/s

T4: 300 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

83% cheaper on T4

K80: $0.90 /GPU/hr

T4: $0.15 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	K80	T4
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.90	$0.64 /GPU/hr from $0.15
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04 (24 mo)	$0.43 /GPU/hr from $0.20 (36 mo)
Spot	No spot listings	$0.26 /GPU/hr from $0.06

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: 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 T4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	K80	T4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	12 GB GDDR5	16 GB GDDR6	33% more on T4
Bandwidth	240 GB/s	300 GB/s	25% higher on T4
Bus width	384-bit	256-bit	50% wider on K80
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	Not supported	65 TFLOPS	T4 only
INT8	Not supported	130 TOPS	T4 only
FP32	4.4 TFLOPS	8.1 TFLOPS	85% higher on T4
FP64	1.5 TFLOPS	Not supported	K80 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	150 W	70 W	2.1x higher on K80
Released	Q4 2014	Q3 2018	4 years newer on T4
Precision
Supported formats	FP32FP64	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: K80 datasheet and T4 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	K80	T4
AWS USA	$0.90 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	$0.0447 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Vast.ai USA	--	$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand
Zenlayer USA	--	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand
Hugging Face USA	--	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand
Google Cloud USA	--	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand
Azure USA	--	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand
Cerebrium USA	--	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand