Nvidia RTX 2080 vs Nvidia RTX 4080

The RTX 4080 is newer, with 2x the memory and 60% more bandwidth. The RTX 2080 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on RTX 4080

RTX 2080: 8 GB

RTX 4080: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

60% higher on RTX 4080

RTX 2080: 448 GB/s

RTX 4080: 717 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

60% cheaper on RTX 2080

RTX 2080: $0.08 /GPU/hr

RTX 4080: $0.20 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 2080	RTX 4080
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.08	$0.25 /GPU/hr from $0.20
Reserved	No reserved listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.25 (3 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.05	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11

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 reserved and spot on the RTX 4080: 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 4080 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 2080	RTX 4080	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6X	2x more on RTX 4080
Bandwidth	448 GB/s	717 GB/s	60% higher on RTX 4080
Bus width	256-bit	256-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	194.9 TFLOPS	RTX 4080 only
FP16 / BF16	40.3 TFLOPS	97.5 TFLOPS	2.4x higher on RTX 4080
INT8	161.1 TOPS	389.9 TOPS	2.4x higher on RTX 4080
FP32	10 TFLOPS	48.7 TFLOPS	4.9x higher on RTX 4080
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 50 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX 2080 only
Board power	215 W	320 W	49% higher on RTX 4080
Released	Q3 2018	Q4 2022	4 years newer on RTX 4080
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: RTX 2080 datasheet and RTX 4080 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	RTX 2080	RTX 4080
Salad Distributed	$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand
Vast.ai USA	--	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPUhub Singapore	--	$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand
SwissGPU Switzerland	--	$0.24 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand