A consumer GPU against a workstation card, one Turing and one Ada Lovelace: 8 GB GDDR6 against 32 GB GDDR6, 29% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 5000 Ada, and NVLink 50 GB/s on the RTX 2080 where the RTX 5000 Ada is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.08 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 32 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 576 GB/s
- From
- $2.12 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 2080 | RTX 5000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.08 | $2.12 | 27x more expensive on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Spot | $0.05 | $0.36 | 7.3x more expensive on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Median | $0.08 | $2.12 | 27x more expensive on RTX 5000 Ada |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 2080 vs RTX 5000 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 2080 | RTX 5000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR6 | 32 GB GDDR6 | 4x more on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 448 GB/s | 576 GB/s | 1.3x higher on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 256-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 522.2 TFLOPS | RTX 5000 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 40.3 TFLOPS | 261.1 TFLOPS | 6.5x higher on RTX 5000 Ada |
| INT8 | 161.1 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 10 TFLOPS | 65.3 TFLOPS | 6.5x higher on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 50 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on RTX 2080 only |
| Board power | 215 W | 250 W | 1.2x higher on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Released | Q3 2018 | Q3 2023 | 5 years newer on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 2080 datasheet and RTX 5000 Ada 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 5000 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.08 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $2.12 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.49 |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 2080 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.