Nvidia P40 vs Nvidia RTX 5080

The P40 has 50% more memory, while the RTX 5080 is newer and has 2.8x the bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

50% more on P40

P40: 24 GB

RTX 5080: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.8x higher on RTX 5080

P40: 346 GB/s

RTX 5080: 960 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

P40: --

RTX 5080: $0.25 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	P40	RTX 5080	Difference
On-demand	No on-demand listings	$0.28 /GPU/hr from $0.25
Spot	No spot listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.15

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 RTX 5080: 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

P40 vs RTX 5080 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 14 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	P40	RTX 5080	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR5	16 GB GDDR7	50% more on P40
Bandwidth	346 GB/s	960 GB/s	2.8x higher on RTX 5080
Bus width	384-bit	256-bit	50% wider on P40
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	900.4 TFLOPS	RTX 5080 only
FP8	Not supported	225.1 TFLOPS	RTX 5080 only
FP16 / BF16		112.6 TFLOPS
INT8	47 TOPS	450.2 TOPS	9.6x higher on RTX 5080
FP32	12 TFLOPS	56.3 TFLOPS	4.7x higher on RTX 5080
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	250 W	360 W	44% higher on RTX 5080
Released	Q3 2016	Q1 2025	8 years newer on RTX 5080
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: P40 datasheet and RTX 5080 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	P40	RTX 5080
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	--	$0.26 /GPU/hr On-demand
SwissGPU Switzerland	--	$0.30 /GPU/hr On-demand