A consumer GPU against a workstation card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 10 GB GDDR6X against 48 GB GDDR6 and 26% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 6000 Ada.
At a glance
Updated 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 10 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 760 GB/s
- From
- $0.18 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.86 /GPU/hr
- 10 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 3080 | RTX 6000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.18 | $0.86 | 4.8x more expensive on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Spot | $0.06 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $1.04 | |
| Median | $0.19 | $1.23 | 6.3x more expensive on RTX 6000 Ada |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 3080 vs RTX 6000 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 3080 | RTX 6000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 10 GB GDDR6X | 48 GB GDDR6 | 4.8x more on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 760 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 1.3x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Bus width | 320-bit | 384-bit | 1.2x wider on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 728.5 TFLOPS | RTX 6000 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 59.5 TFLOPS | 364.2 TFLOPS | 6.1x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| INT8 | 238 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 29.8 TFLOPS | 91.1 TFLOPS | 3.1x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 320 W | 300 W | 1.1x higher on RTX 3080 |
| Released | Q3 2020 | Q4 2022 | 2 years newer on RTX 6000 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 6000 Ada 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 6000 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.17 | Reservation on request |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.18 | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
On-Demand $0.21 | -- |
TensorDock
|
-- | On-Demand $0.86 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $1.23 |
DigitalOcean
|
-- | On-Demand $1.57 |
AceCloud
|
-- | Reserved (12mo) $1.04 |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $0.66 |
Novita
|
-- | On-Demand $0.77 |
Massed Compute
|
-- | On-Demand $0.79 |
3 providers list the RTX 3080 and 10 the RTX 6000 Ada. Every listing is on the RTX 3080 page and the RTX 6000 Ada page.
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3080 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.