Nvidia RTX 2080 vs Nvidia RTX 3050

The RTX 2080 has 2x the bandwidth, with the same 8 GB of memory. The RTX 3050 is newer and cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

RTX 2080: 8 GB

RTX 3050: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

2x higher on RTX 2080

RTX 2080: 448 GB/s

RTX 3050: 224 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

12% cheaper on RTX 3050

RTX 2080: $0.08 /GPU/hr

RTX 3050: $0.07 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 2080	RTX 3050	Difference
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.08	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.05	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03

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 spot on the RTX 2080 and on-demand and spot on the RTX 3050: 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

RTX 2080 vs RTX 3050 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 2080	RTX 3050	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	448 GB/s	224 GB/s	2x higher on RTX 2080
Bus width	256-bit	128-bit	2x wider on RTX 2080
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	40.3 TFLOPS	18.2 TFLOPS	2.2x higher on RTX 2080
INT8	161.1 TOPS	72.8 TOPS	2.2x higher on RTX 2080
FP32	10 TFLOPS	9.1 TFLOPS	10% higher on RTX 2080
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 50 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX 2080 only
Board power	215 W	130 W	65% higher on RTX 2080
Released	Q3 2018	Q1 2022	3 years newer on RTX 3050
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32INT4INT8	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8