Nvidia RTX 3080 vs Nvidia RTX 4070

The RTX 3080 has 51% more bandwidth, while the RTX 4070 is newer and has 20% more memory. The two typically cost about the same.

At a glance

Memory

20% more on RTX 4070

RTX 3080: 10 GB

RTX 4070: 12 GB

Memory bandwidth

51% higher on RTX 3080

RTX 3080: 760 GB/s

RTX 4070: 504 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

Within 5%

RTX 3080: $0.11 /GPU/hr

RTX 4070: $0.11 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 3080	RTX 4070	Difference
On-demand	$0.15 /GPU/hr from $0.11	$0.15 /GPU/hr from $0.11	Within 5%
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12 (6 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.17 (3 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07

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 4070: 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 4070 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3080	RTX 4070	Difference
Memory
Capacity	10 GB GDDR6X	12 GB GDDR6X	20% more on RTX 4070
Bandwidth	760 GB/s	504 GB/s	51% higher on RTX 3080
Bus width	320-bit	192-bit	67% wider on RTX 3080
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	116.6 TFLOPS	RTX 4070 only
FP16 / BF16	59.5 TFLOPS	58.3 TFLOPS	Within 5%
INT8	238 TOPS	233.2 TOPS	Within 5%
FP32	29.8 TFLOPS	29.1 TFLOPS	Within 5%
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	320 W	200 W	60% higher on RTX 3080
Released	Q3 2020	Q2 2023	3 years newer on RTX 4070
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 4070 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 4070
Vast.ai USA	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	$0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	$0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand	--