A consumer GPU against a workstation card, one Blackwell and one Ada Lovelace: 16 GB GDDR7 against 48 GB GDDR6.
At a glance
Updated 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.12 /GPU/hr
- 5 providers
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
- $0.74 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 5080 | RTX 5880 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.12 | $0.74 | 6.3x more expensive on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Spot | $0.14 | $0.30 | 2.2x more expensive on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Median | $0.31 | $0.74 | 2.4x more expensive on RTX 5880 Ada |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 5080 vs RTX 5880 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 5080 | RTX 5880 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB GDDR7 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 3x more on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 960 GB/s | 960 GB/s | Identical |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 384-bit | 1.5x wider on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | 900.4 TFLOPS | Not supported | RTX 5080 only |
| FP8 | 225.1 TFLOPS | 554.2 TFLOPS | 2.5x higher on RTX 5880 Ada |
| FP16 / BF16 | 112.6 TFLOPS | 277.1 TFLOPS | 2.5x higher on RTX 5880 Ada |
| INT8 | 450.2 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 56.3 TFLOPS | 69.3 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 360 W | 285 W | 1.3x higher on RTX 5080 |
| Released | Q1 2025 | Q1 2024 | 13 months newer on RTX 5080 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 5080 datasheet and RTX 5880 Ada datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX 5080 /GPU/hr | RTX 5880 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.16 | On-Demand $0.74 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
On-Demand $0.12 | -- |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.39 | -- |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.42 | -- |
SwissGPU
|
On-Demand $0.31 | -- |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 5080 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.