Nvidia RTX 3080 vs Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada

The RTX 4000 Ada is newer and has 2x the memory, while the RTX 3080 has 2.1x the bandwidth. The RTX 3080 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on RTX 4000 Ada

RTX 3080: 10 GB

RTX 4000 Ada: 20 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.1x higher on RTX 3080

RTX 3080: 760 GB/s

RTX 4000 Ada: 360 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

46% cheaper on RTX 3080

RTX 3080: $0.11 /GPU/hr

RTX 4000 Ada: $0.20 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 3080	RTX 4000 Ada	Difference
On-demand	$0.15 /GPU/hr from $0.11	$0.51 /GPU/hr from $0.20	71% cheaper on RTX 3080
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12 (3 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.18 (3 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13

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 reserved and spot on the RTX 4000 Ada: 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 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3080	RTX 4000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	10 GB GDDR6X	20 GB GDDR6	2x more on RTX 4000 Ada
Bandwidth	760 GB/s	360 GB/s	2.1x higher on RTX 3080
Bus width	320-bit	160-bit	2x wider on RTX 3080
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	213.8 TFLOPS	RTX 4000 Ada only
FP16 / BF16	59.5 TFLOPS	106.9 TFLOPS	80% higher on RTX 4000 Ada
INT8	238 TOPS
FP32	29.8 TFLOPS	26.7 TFLOPS	12% higher on RTX 3080
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	320 W	130 W	2.5x higher on RTX 3080
Released	Q3 2020	Q3 2023	3 years newer on RTX 4000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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 Ada 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 3080	RTX 4000 Ada
Vast.ai USA	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.28 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	$0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Akamai Cloud USA	--	$0.52 /GPU/hr On-demand
DigitalOcean USA	--	$0.76 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	--	$0.87 /GPU/hr On-demand