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K80 vs V100

The V100 is 3 generations newer with Tensor Cores and 32GB HBM2. Choose V100 for any workload beyond basic experimentation.

Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia K80

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

Nvidia logo Nvidia V100

The Nvidia V100 is a data center GPU on the Volta architecture, released Q2 2017, with 32 GB HBM2 and 900 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Mid-Range Datacenter

Memory per GPU

2.7x more on V100
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12 GB GDDR5
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32 GB HBM2

Memory bandwidth

3.8x higher on V100
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240 GB/s
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900 GB/s

GPU interconnect

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PCIe only
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NVLink 300 GB/s

Peak performance (FP32)

3.6x higher on V100
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4.4 TFLOPS
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15.7 TFLOPS

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

FP32 per watt

1.8x higher on V100
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0.03 TFLOPS/W
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0.05 TFLOPS/W

Board power

2x higher on V100
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150 W
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300 W

Precision support

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FP32 FP64
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FP16 FP32 FP64 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

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Kepler
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Volta

Released

3 years newer on V100
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Q4 2014
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Q2 2017

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

8.3x higher on K80
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$0.90 / GPU / hr
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$0.11 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

1.1x higher on V100
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$0.90 / GPU / hr
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$0.99 / 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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$0.09 / GPU / hr

Providers listing it

18 more on V100
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2
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20

Heads up: Prices are estimates from published rates for common setups and vary by region and usage; verify with the provider before provisioning.

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. 30, 2026, and for Nvidia V100 on Aug. 30, 2026.