Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Turing and one Ampere: 8 GB GDDR6 against 24 GB GDDR6X and 2.1x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 3090.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.08 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 936 GB/s
- From
- $0.10 /GPU/hr
- 10 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 2080 | RTX 3090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.08 | $0.10 | 20% cheaper on RTX 2080 |
| Spot | $0.05 | $0.07 | 27% cheaper on RTX 2080 |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.06 | |
| Median | $0.08 | $0.25 | 3.1x more expensive on RTX 3090 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 2080 vs RTX 3090 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 2080 | RTX 3090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6X | 3x more on RTX 3090 |
| Bandwidth | 448 GB/s | 936 GB/s | 2.1x higher on RTX 3090 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 384-bit | 1.5x wider on RTX 3090 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 40.3 TFLOPS | 71.2 TFLOPS | 1.8x higher on RTX 3090 |
| INT8 | 161.1 TOPS | 284.7 TOPS | 1.8x higher on RTX 3090 |
| FP32 | 10 TFLOPS | 35.6 TFLOPS | 3.6x higher on RTX 3090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 50 GB/s | NVLink 112 GB/s | 2.2x higher on RTX 3090 |
| Board power | 215 W | 350 W | 1.6x higher on RTX 3090 |
| Released | Q3 2018 | Q3 2020 | 2 years newer on RTX 3090 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 2080 datasheet and RTX 3090 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 3090 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.08 | On-Demand $0.25 |
HyperAI
|
-- | On-Demand $0.10 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.12 |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.13 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.13 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.21 |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
-- | On-Demand $0.45 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $0.31 |
1 provider list the RTX 2080 and 10 the RTX 3090. Every listing is on the RTX 2080 page and the RTX 3090 page.
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 2080 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3090 on Sept. 7, 2026.