A100 vs RTX 3080: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. A100 from $0.735/GPU/hr across 7 providers; RTX 3080 from $0.170/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The RTX 3080 is 77% cheaper at the entry rate.
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A100 vs RTX 3080: common questions
Is the A100 or the RTX 3080 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A100 starts at $0.735/GPU/hr (median $1.59/GPU/hr across 7 providers) and the RTX 3080 starts at $0.170/GPU/hr (median $0.180/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The RTX 3080 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 77%.
What is the difference between the A100 and the RTX 3080?
The A100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX 3080's 12 GB; both are Ampere parts; both run BF16, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the A100 lists from $0.735/GPU/hr and the RTX 3080 from $0.170/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A100 and the RTX 3080?
7 providers list the A100 (Vast.ai, RunPod, Verda, Massed Compute, HyperStack, Jarvislabs and Akash) and 1 list the RTX 3080 (RunPod), across 7 and 1 region respectively. Both are available from RunPod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A100 vs the RTX 3080?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $735 on the A100 and $170 on the RTX 3080, a difference of $565 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How this comparison is calculated
Every price is normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using the same pipeline as every other pricing surface on Aquanode, and only the cheapest qualifying offer per provider is shown. A dash means that provider does not currently list that GPU.
Architecture, compute capability and supported precisions come from each vendor's published datasheet for that generation, not from the marketplace feed. This page regenerates at most once per hour.
