Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti
Ampere consumer GPU for local development and gaming.
- Arch
- Ampere
- Memory
- 12 GB GDDR6X
- Bandwidth
- 912 GB/s
- Released
- Q2 2021
Price history
Weekly median price per GPU per hour
At a glance Updated 7 minutes ago
- Cheapest in stock
- $0.12 /GPU/hr
- on-demand · 1x · Vast.ai
- Median price (current)
- $0.18 /GPU/hr
- on-demand
- 90-day trend
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- Coverage
- 5 providers
- 25 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.
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 Ti run?
One RTX 3080 Ti has 12 GB of VRAM. In practice, that's enough memory for roughly 1B parameters at 4-bit or 0.4B at 16-bit, assuming a 32K context. Below are some open-weight LLMs, with the estimated memory and GPUs each one needs.
| Model | Memory (INT4 / FP4) | RTX 3080 Tis needed | Cost /hr | Cost /mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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19 GB
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2
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$0.36
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$259
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24 GB
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4
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$0.72
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$518
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68 GB
|
7
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–
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–
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178 GB
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17
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–
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–
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241 GB
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23
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–
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–
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306 GB
|
29
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–
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–
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1,545 GB
|
144
|
–
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–
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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 Ti · Per GPU
| Compute · dense | |
|---|---|
| FP16 / BF16 | 68.2 TFLOPS 136.4 with sparsity |
| INT8 | 272.8 TOPS 545.6 with sparsity |
| FP32 | 34.1 TFLOPS |
| Precision support | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 |
| Memory | |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 12 GB GDDR6X |
| Bandwidth | 912 GB/s |
| Bus width | 384-bit |
| ECC | No |
| Silicon | |
|---|---|
| Architecture | Ampere |
| Process | Samsung 8N |
| Transistors | 28.3 billion |
| Shader cores | 10,240 CUDA cores |
| Matrix cores | 320 Tensor cores |
| Compute units | 80 SMs |
| Fabric and host | |
|---|---|
| Host interface | PCIe 4.0 |
| Power | |
|---|---|
| Board power | 350 W |
| Cooling | Active |
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does the RTX 3080 Ti cost per hour?
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As of September 14, 2026, the median on-demand price is $0.18 per GPU per hour across 5 providers.
Billing type Configs Median /GPU/hr Cheapest On-demand
16
$0.18
$0.12 (in stock, Vast.ai)
Spot
9
$0.08
No median for spot: we only show this when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type.
Who has the cheapest RTX 3080 Ti?
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The cheapest verified in-stock on-demand RTX 3080 Ti tracked by GetDeploying is $0.12 per GPU per hour from Vast.ai.
How much does the RTX 3080 Ti cost per month?
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At 720 hours per month, one RTX 3080 Ti costs an estimated $130 at the median on-demand price. Cheapest verified in stock: $86 per month on-demand, $79 spot.
Where can I rent an RTX 3080 Ti?
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GetDeploying currently tracks RTX 3080 Ti configs from 5 providers. The cheapest verified in-stock on-demand configs come from Vast.ai, Salad, Runpod and Theta EdgeCloud. See the full price comparison above for every provider and config.
How many RTX 3080 Ti GPUs do I need?
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One RTX 3080 Ti runs models up to roughly 1B parameters at 4-bit quantization or 0.4B at 16-bit, assuming a 32K context. 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 Ti?
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12GB GDDR6X with Ampere Tensor Cores. Affordable previous-gen option for local AI work.
When is the RTX 3080 Ti not a good fit?
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12GB VRAM is limiting. No FP8. Subject to Nvidia's consumer EULA, which may restrict data center use. The RTX 4070 Ti offers similar VRAM with better efficiency.
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