Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 10 GB GDDR6X against 8 GB GDDR7 and 70% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 3080.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 10 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 760 GB/s
- From
- $0.11 /GPU/hr
- 5 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 | RTX 5060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.11 | $0.09 | 17% cheaper on RTX 5060 |
| Spot | $0.04 | $0.04 | 7% cheaper on RTX 5060 |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.08 | |
| Median | $0.16 | $0.14 | 12% 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 vs RTX 5060 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 3080 | RTX 5060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 10 GB GDDR6X | 8 GB GDDR7 | 1.2x more on RTX 3080 |
| Bandwidth | 760 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 1.7x higher on RTX 3080 |
| Bus width | 320-bit | 128-bit | 2.5x wider on RTX 3080 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 307 TFLOPS | RTX 5060 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 76.8 TFLOPS | RTX 5060 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 59.5 TFLOPS | 38.4 TFLOPS | 1.5x higher on RTX 3080 |
| INT8 | 238 TOPS | 153.6 TOPS | 1.5x higher on RTX 3080 |
| FP32 | 29.8 TFLOPS | 19.2 TFLOPS | 1.6x higher on RTX 3080 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 320 W | 145 W | 2.2x higher on RTX 3080 |
| Released | Q3 2020 | Q2 2025 | 5 years newer on RTX 5060 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
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 5060 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX 3080 /GPU/hr | RTX 5060 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.11 | On-Demand $0.09 |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.18 | On-Demand $0.14 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
On-Demand $0.21 | On-Demand $0.18 |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.14 | -- |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.17 | -- |
Database Mart
|
-- | Reserved (24mo) $0.12 |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3080 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5060 on Sept. 7, 2026.