Nvidia RTX 3080
Ampere consumer GPU for local AI experimentation.
- Arch
- Ampere
- Memory
- 10 GB GDDR6X
- Bandwidth
- 760 GB/s
- Released
- Q3 2020
Price history
Weekly median price per GPU per hour
Aggregating historical prices...
At a glance Updated 12 minutes ago
- Cheapest in stock
- $0.07 /GPU/hr
- on-demand · 1x · Vast.ai
- Median price (current)
- $0.13 /GPU/hr
- on-demand
- 90-day trend
- Flat
- median on-demand
- Coverage
- 5 providers
- 59 price points
Pricing & availability
How this list works
The two views
By provider shows one card per company, placed where its best offer ranked. By configuration lists every offer.
Order
What you can rent comes first: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. Priced offers rank ahead of quote-only, and on-demand ahead of other billing types.
Within a group, five factors set the order:
- Location: datacenter proximity, blended with provider HQ.
- Price: hourly price, per GPU and in total.
- Billing type: reserved ahead of spot, spot ahead of quote-only.
- Specs: more VRAM, vCPUs and RAM.
- Provider diversity: a provider's repeat rows rank slightly lower, so one company can't take all the top spots.
Search
We match the provider, its country, GPU model, form factor, billing type, availability and instance name. Matching is partial and case-insensitive. Everyday words work too, so "interruptible" finds spot and "sold out" finds out of stock.
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- Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.
Vast.ai
In stock
USA
53 configs
1x-8x
GPU.ai
In stock
UAE
2 configs
1x-2x
Theta EdgeCloud
In stock
Runpod
Out of stock
USA
1 config
1x
No providers match .
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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
What can the RTX 3080 run?
One RTX 3080 has 10 GB of VRAM. Even at 4-bit, the weights of most modern AI models exceed the card's usable VRAM, and context adds KV cache on top. Below are some open-weight LLMs, with the estimated memory and GPUs each one needs.
Multi-node
| Model | Memory (INT4 / FP4) | RTX 3080s needed | Cost /hr | Cost /mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Qwen3.8-27B
27B
|
19 GB
|
3
|
–
|
–
|
Gemma 4 31B
30.7B
|
24 GB
|
3
|
–
|
–
|
GPT-OSS-120B
117B · 5.1B active
|
68 GB
|
8
|
–
|
–
|
GLM-5.3-Flash
320B · 18B active
|
178 GB
|
20
|
–
|
–
|
MiniMax-M3
428B · 23B active
|
241 GB
|
27
|
–
|
–
|
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
552B · 16B active
|
306 GB
|
34
|
–
|
–
|
Kimi K3
2.8T · 104B active
|
1,545 GB
|
172
|
–
|
–
|
Estimates based on the median on-demand rate. Memory is weights plus FP16/BF16 KV cache at 32K context per request. GPU counts assume 90% of advertised VRAM is usable. No guarantee of runtime support, usable performance, or that a matching quantized build exists. How we estimate costs.
Technical Specifications
Nvidia RTX 3080 · Per GPU
| Compute · dense | |
|---|---|
| FP16 / BF16 | 59.5 TFLOPS 119 with sparsity |
| INT8 | 238 TOPS 476 with sparsity |
| FP32 | 29.8 TFLOPS |
| Precision support | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 |
| Memory | |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 10 GB GDDR6X |
| Bandwidth | 760 GB/s |
| Bus width | 320-bit |
| ECC | No |
| Silicon | |
|---|---|
| Architecture | Ampere |
| Process | Samsung 8N |
| Transistors | 28.3 billion |
| Shader cores | 8,704 CUDA cores |
| Matrix cores | 272 Tensor cores |
| Compute units | 68 SMs |
| Fabric and host | |
|---|---|
| Host interface | PCIe 4.0 |
| Power | |
|---|---|
| Board power | 320 W |
| Cooling | Active |
Source: official Nvidia RTX 3080 datasheet.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does the RTX 3080 cost per hour?
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As of September 13, 2026, the median on-demand price is $0.13 per GPU per hour across 4 providers with a priced on-demand config.
Billing type Configs Median /GPU/hr Cheapest On-demand
27
$0.13
$0.07 (in stock, Vast.ai)
Reserved
13
$0.08 (1 mo, in stock, Vast.ai)
Spot
19
$0.04 (in stock, Vast.ai)
No median for reserved and spot: we only show this when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type.
Who has the cheapest RTX 3080?
How much does the RTX 3080 cost per month?
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At 720 hours per month, one RTX 3080 costs an estimated $94 at the median on-demand price. Cheapest verified in stock: $50 per month on-demand, $58 reserved (1 mo), $29 spot.
Where can I rent an RTX 3080?
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GetDeploying currently tracks RTX 3080 configs from 5 providers. The cheapest verified in-stock on-demand configs come from Vast.ai, GPU.ai, Salad and Theta EdgeCloud. See the full price comparison above for every provider and config.
Are RTX 3080 prices going up or down?
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As of September 13, 2026, the median on-demand price has been flat over the past 90 days, at about $0.13 per GPU per hour.
How many RTX 3080 GPUs do I need?
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More than one: even at 4-bit, the weights of most modern AI models exceed one RTX 3080's usable VRAM, and context adds KV cache on top. Larger models run across multiple GPUs: the model table above shows the estimated memory and GPU count for popular open-weight LLMs.
Why choose the RTX 3080?
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10GB or 12GB GDDR6X with Ampere Tensor Cores. Budget option for local AI experimentation.
When is the RTX 3080 not a good fit?
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10-12GB VRAM limits model sizes. No FP8. Subject to Nvidia's consumer EULA, which may restrict data center use.
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