Nvidia L4 vs Nvidia RTX 3080

The L4 is newer and has 2.4x the memory, while the RTX 3080 has 2.5x the bandwidth. The RTX 3080 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2.4x more on L4

L4: 24 GB

RTX 3080: 10 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.5x higher on RTX 3080

L4: 300 GB/s

RTX 3080: 760 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

57% cheaper on RTX 3080

L4: $0.33 /GPU/hr

RTX 3080: $0.14 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L4	RTX 3080
On-demand	$0.86 /GPU/hr from $0.33	-- /GPU/hr from $0.14
Reserved	$0.52 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29	-- /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 spot on the L4 and on-demand and spot on the RTX 3080: 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

L4 vs RTX 3080 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L4	RTX 3080	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	10 GB GDDR6X	2.4x more on L4
Bandwidth	300 GB/s	760 GB/s	2.5x higher on RTX 3080
Bus width	192-bit	320-bit	67% wider on RTX 3080
Compute · dense
FP8	242 TFLOPS	Not supported	L4 only
FP16 / BF16	121 TFLOPS	59.5 TFLOPS	2x higher on L4
INT8	242 TOPS	238 TOPS	Within 5%
FP32	30.3 TFLOPS	29.8 TFLOPS	Within 5%
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	72 W	320 W	4.4x higher on RTX 3080
Released	Q1 2023	Q3 2020	2 years newer on L4
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

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

Source: L4 datasheet and RTX 3080 datasheet.

Where to rent them

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

Provider	L4	RTX 3080
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand
Jarvislabs India	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Scaleway France	$0.88 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$1.23 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Hexabyte Sweden	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand