Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Turing and one Ampere: both with 8 GB GDDR6 and 448 GB/s memory bandwidth and NVLink 50 GB/s on the RTX 2080 where the RTX 3070 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.08 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.08 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 2080 | RTX 3070 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.08 | $0.08 | Within 5% |
| Spot | $0.05 | $0.04 | 20% cheaper on RTX 3070 |
| Median | $0.08 | $0.10 | 20% cheaper on RTX 2080 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 2080 vs RTX 3070 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 2080 | RTX 3070 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 448 GB/s | 448 GB/s | Identical |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 256-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 40.3 TFLOPS | 40.6 TFLOPS | Within 5% |
| INT8 | 161.1 TOPS | 162.6 TOPS | Within 5% |
| FP32 | 10 TFLOPS | 20.3 TFLOPS | 2x higher on RTX 3070 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 50 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on RTX 2080 only |
| Board power | 215 W | 220 W | Within 5% |
| Released | Q3 2018 | Q4 2020 | 2 years newer on RTX 3070 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 2080 datasheet and RTX 3070 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX 2080 /GPU/hr | RTX 3070 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.08 | On-Demand $0.10 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.08 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.10 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.13 |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 2080 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3070 on Sept. 7, 2026.