A workstation GPU against a consumer card, one Ada Lovelace and one Blackwell: 32 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB GDDR7 and 67% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 5080.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 32 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 576 GB/s
- From
- $2.12 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.22 /GPU/hr
- 5 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 5000 Ada | RTX 5080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $2.12 | $0.22 | 9.8x more expensive on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Spot | $0.36 | $0.14 | 2.6x more expensive on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Median | $2.12 | $0.32 | 6.5x more expensive on RTX 5000 Ada |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 5000 Ada vs RTX 5080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 5000 Ada | RTX 5080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 32 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR7 | 2x more on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 576 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 1.7x higher on RTX 5080 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 256-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 900.4 TFLOPS | RTX 5080 only |
| FP8 | 522.2 TFLOPS | 225.1 TFLOPS | 2.3x higher on RTX 5000 Ada |
| FP16 / BF16 | 261.1 TFLOPS | 112.6 TFLOPS | 2.3x higher on RTX 5000 Ada |
| INT8 | 450.2 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 65.3 TFLOPS | 56.3 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on RTX 5000 Ada |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 250 W | 360 W | 1.4x higher on RTX 5080 |
| Released | Q3 2023 | Q1 2025 | 2 years newer on RTX 5080 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 5000 Ada 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 5000 Ada /GPU/hr | RTX 5080 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $2.12 | On-Demand $0.22 |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.49 | On-Demand $0.39 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.34 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.42 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $0.31 |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5080 on Sept. 7, 2026.