Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 12 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB GDDR7 and 2.7x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 5080.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- From
- $0.05 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.12 /GPU/hr
- 5 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 3060 | RTX 5080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.05 | $0.12 | 2.3x more expensive on RTX 5080 |
| Spot | $0.03 | $0.17 | 5.7x more expensive on RTX 5080 |
| Reserved | $0.11 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.07 | $0.36 | 5.5x more expensive on RTX 5080 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 3060 vs RTX 5080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 3060 | RTX 5080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 12 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR7 | 1.3x more on RTX 5080 |
| Bandwidth | 360 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 2.7x higher on RTX 5080 |
| Bus width | 192-bit | 256-bit | 1.3x wider on RTX 5080 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 900.4 TFLOPS | RTX 5080 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 225.1 TFLOPS | RTX 5080 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 25.5 TFLOPS | 112.6 TFLOPS | 4.4x higher on RTX 5080 |
| INT8 | 101.9 TOPS | 450.2 TOPS | 4.4x higher on RTX 5080 |
| FP32 | 12.7 TFLOPS | 56.3 TFLOPS | 4.4x higher on RTX 5080 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 170 W | 360 W | 2.1x higher on RTX 5080 |
| Released | Q1 2021 | Q1 2025 | 4 years newer on RTX 5080 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 3060 datasheet and RTX 5080 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX 3060 /GPU/hr | RTX 5080 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Theta EdgeCloud
|
On-Demand $0.0499 | On-Demand $0.12 |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.08 | On-Demand $0.42 |
Vast.ai
|
Reserved (1mo) $0.11 | On-Demand $1.79 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $0.31 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.39 |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3060 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5080 on Sept. 7, 2026.