Nvidia RTX 3080 vs Nvidia RTX 4000

The RTX 3080 is newer, with 25% more memory and 83% more bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

25% more on RTX 3080

RTX 3080: 10 GB

RTX 4000: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

83% higher on RTX 3080

RTX 3080: 760 GB/s

RTX 4000: 416 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

82% cheaper on RTX 3080

RTX 3080: $0.10 /GPU/hr

RTX 4000: $0.56 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 3080	RTX 4000
On-demand	$0.15 /GPU/hr from $0.10	-- /GPU/hr from $0.56
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11 (6 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06	No spot listings

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 3080 and on-demand on the RTX 4000: 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 3080 vs RTX 4000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3080	RTX 4000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	10 GB GDDR6X	8 GB GDDR6	25% more on RTX 3080
Bandwidth	760 GB/s	416 GB/s	83% higher on RTX 3080
Bus width	320-bit	256-bit	25% wider on RTX 3080
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	59.5 TFLOPS	57 TFLOPS	Within 5%
INT8	238 TOPS
FP32	29.8 TFLOPS	7.1 TFLOPS	4.2x higher on RTX 3080
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	320 W	160 W	2x higher on RTX 3080
Released	Q3 2020	Q4 2018	2 years newer on RTX 3080
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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 3080 datasheet and RTX 4000 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	RTX 3080	RTX 4000
Vast.ai USA	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	$0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Paperspace USA	--	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand