Nvidia P40 vs Nvidia RTX 3080

A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Pascal and one Ampere: 24 GB GDDR5 against 10 GB GDDR6X and 2.2x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 3080.

At a glance

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Nvidia P40

Nvidia RTX 3080

Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.

Billing	P40	RTX 3080	Difference
On-demand	$0.11	$0.11	5% cheaper on P40
Spot	$0.07	$0.04	36% cheaper on RTX 3080
Median	$0.11	$0.16	33% cheaper on P40

Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 13 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Spec	P40	RTX 3080	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR5	10 GB GDDR6X	2.4x more on P40
Bandwidth	346 GB/s	760 GB/s	2.2x higher on RTX 3080
Bus width	384-bit	320-bit	1.2x wider on P40
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16		59.5 TFLOPS
INT8	47 TOPS	238 TOPS	5.1x higher on RTX 3080
FP32	12 TFLOPS	29.8 TFLOPS	2.5x higher on RTX 3080
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	250 W	320 W	1.3x higher on RTX 3080
Released	Q3 2016	Q3 2020	4 years newer on RTX 3080
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32INT8	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.

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

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Our data for Nvidia P40 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3080 on Sept. 7, 2026.