Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 12 GB GDDR6X against 8 GB GDDR7 and 2x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 3080 Ti.
At a glance
Updated 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 912 GB/s
- From
- $0.15 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.09 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 3080 Ti | RTX 5060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.15 | $0.09 | 37% cheaper on RTX 5060 |
| Spot | $0.08 | $0.04 | 50% cheaper on RTX 5060 |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.08 | |
| Median | $0.19 | $0.14 | 26% cheaper on RTX 5060 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 3080 Ti vs RTX 5060 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 3080 Ti | RTX 5060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 12 GB GDDR6X | 8 GB GDDR7 | 1.5x more on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Bandwidth | 912 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 2x higher on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 128-bit | 3x wider on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 307 TFLOPS | RTX 5060 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 76.8 TFLOPS | RTX 5060 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 68.2 TFLOPS | 38.4 TFLOPS | 1.8x higher on RTX 3080 Ti |
| INT8 | 272.8 TOPS | 153.6 TOPS | 1.8x higher on RTX 3080 Ti |
| FP32 | 34.1 TFLOPS | 19.2 TFLOPS | 1.8x higher on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 350 W | 145 W | 2.4x higher on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q2 2025 | 4 years newer on RTX 5060 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 3080 Ti datasheet and RTX 5060 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX 3080 Ti /GPU/hr | RTX 5060 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.15 | On-Demand $0.09 |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.20 | On-Demand $0.14 |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.18 | -- |
Exoscale
|
On-Demand $0.79 | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.18 |
Database Mart
|
-- | Reserved (24mo) $0.12 |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5060 on Sept. 7, 2026.