Nvidia RTX 3070 vs Nvidia RTX 5080

The RTX 5080 is newer, with 2x the memory and 2.1x the bandwidth. The RTX 3070 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on RTX 5080

RTX 3070: 8 GB

RTX 5080: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.1x higher on RTX 5080

RTX 3070: 448 GB/s

RTX 5080: 960 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

60% cheaper on RTX 3070

RTX 3070: $0.08 /GPU/hr

RTX 5080: $0.20 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 3070	RTX 5080	Difference
On-demand	$0.12 /GPU/hr from $0.08	$0.31 /GPU/hr from $0.20	61% cheaper on RTX 3070
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.10 (1 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29 (3 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04	-- /GPU/hr from $0.15

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 reserved and spot on the RTX 3070 and reserved and spot on the RTX 5080: 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 3070 vs RTX 5080 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3070	RTX 5080	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR7	2x more on RTX 5080
Bandwidth	448 GB/s	960 GB/s	2.1x higher on RTX 5080
Bus width	256-bit	256-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	900.4 TFLOPS	RTX 5080 only
FP8	Not supported	225.1 TFLOPS	RTX 5080 only
FP16 / BF16	40.6 TFLOPS	112.6 TFLOPS	2.8x higher on RTX 5080
INT8	162.6 TOPS	450.2 TOPS	2.8x higher on RTX 5080
FP32	20.3 TFLOPS	56.3 TFLOPS	2.8x higher on RTX 5080
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	220 W	360 W	64% higher on RTX 5080
Released	Q4 2020	Q1 2025	4 years newer on RTX 5080
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: RTX 3070 datasheet and RTX 5080 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 3070	RTX 5080
Vast.ai USA	$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.26 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.24 /GPU/hr On-demand
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand
SwissGPU Switzerland	--	$0.30 /GPU/hr On-demand