A workstation GPU against a consumer card, one Turing and one Blackwell: 8 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB GDDR7 and 2.3x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 5080.

At a glance

Memory

RTX 4000
8 GB
RTX 5080
16 GB

2x more on RTX 5080

Memory bandwidth

RTX 4000
416 GB/s
RTX 5080
960 GB/s

2.3x higher on RTX 5080

Cheapest on-demand

RTX 4000
$0.56 /GPU/hr
RTX 5080
$0.19 /GPU/hr

3x more expensive on RTX 4000

Price comparison

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

Billing RTX 4000 RTX 5080 Difference
On-demand -- /GPU/hr from $0.56 $0.29 /GPU/hr from $0.19
Reserved No reserved listings -- /GPU/hr from $0.19 (1 mo)
Spot No spot listings -- /GPU/hr from $0.14

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 on-demand on the RTX 4000 and reserved and spot on the RTX 5080: 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 4000 vs RTX 5080 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months
Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec RTX 4000 RTX 5080 Difference
Memory
Capacity 8 GB GDDR6 16 GB GDDR7 2x more on RTX 5080
Bandwidth 416 GB/s 960 GB/s 2.3x higher on RTX 5080
Bus width 256-bit 256-bit Identical
Compute · dense
FP4 Not supported 900.4 TFLOPS RTX 5080 only
FP8 Not supported 225.1 TFLOPS RTX 5080 only
FP16 / BF16 57 TFLOPS 112.6 TFLOPS 2x higher on RTX 5080
INT8 450.2 TOPS
FP32 7.1 TFLOPS 56.3 TFLOPS 7.9x higher on RTX 5080
Platform
Interconnect PCIe only PCIe only
Board power 160 W 360 W 2.2x higher on RTX 5080
Released Q4 2018 Q1 2025 6 years newer on RTX 5080
Precision
Supported formats FP16FP32INT4INT8 FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: RTX 4000 datasheet and RTX 5080 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider RTX 4000 /GPU/hr RTX 5080 /GPU/hr
Paperspace logo Paperspace On-Demand $0.56 --
Vast.ai logo Vast.ai -- On-Demand $0.19
GPU.ai logo GPU.ai -- On-Demand $0.26
Salad logo Salad -- On-Demand $0.26
Theta EdgeCloud logo Theta EdgeCloud -- On-Demand $0.36
Runpod logo Runpod -- On-Demand $0.39
SwissGPU logo SwissGPU -- On-Demand $0.31

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Our data for Nvidia RTX 4000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5080 on Sept. 7, 2026.