AMD MI300X vs RTX 3080: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the AMD MI300X when 192 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 3080 when 12 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
The AMD MI300X has 192 GB of VRAM; the RTX 3080 has 12 GB.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. AMD MI300X from $2.63/GPU/hr; RTX 3080 from $0.187/GPU/hr. The RTX 3080 is 93% cheaper at the entry rate.
AMD MI300X
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
RTX 3080
Good for inference and small-scale training workloads
Last updated: 2026-10-10 20:04:44 UTCRefreshes hourly
Specs side by side
| Spec | AMD MI300X | RTX 3080 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 192 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 5.3 TB/s | 760 GB/s |
| Architecture | CDNA3 | Ampere |
| Compute capability | n/a | 8.6 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4 |
| Peak FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS | 1,307.4 TFLOPS | 119 TFLOPS |
| Peak FP8 tensor TFLOPS | 2,614.9 TFLOPS | – |
| NVLink / multi-GPU interconnect | Infinity Fabric | – |
| Max board power (TDP) | 750W | 320W |
| Regions | 2 | 2 |
On-demand price
| Rate | AMD MI300X | RTX 3080 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $2.63/GPU/hr | $0.187/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) |
Which is better for AI: AMD MI300X or RTX 3080?
Choose the AMD MI300X when 192 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 3080 when 12 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
AMD MI300X vs RTX 3080: common questions
Is the AMD MI300X or the RTX 3080 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the AMD MI300X when 192 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 3080 when 12 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
Is the AMD MI300X or the RTX 3080 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the AMD MI300X starts at $2.63/GPU/hr (median $2.63/GPU/hr) and the RTX 3080 starts at $0.187/GPU/hr (median $0.198/GPU/hr). The RTX 3080 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 93%.
What is the difference between the AMD MI300X and the RTX 3080?
The AMD MI300X has 192 GB of VRAM against the RTX 3080's 12 GB; the AMD MI300X is a CDNA3 part and the RTX 3080 is Ampere; only the AMD MI300X supports FP8 compute. On price, the AMD MI300X lists from $2.63/GPU/hr and the RTX 3080 from $0.187/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the AMD MI300X and the RTX 3080?
The AMD MI300X is listed in 2 regions and the RTX 3080 in 2 regions right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the AMD MI300X vs the RTX 3080?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $2,629 on the AMD MI300X and $187 on the RTX 3080, a difference of $2,442 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the AMD MI300X have compared to the RTX 3080?
The AMD MI300X has 192 GB of VRAM; the RTX 3080 has 12 GB.
Does the AMD MI300X or the RTX 3080 support NVLink?
The AMD MI300X supports Infinity Fabric; the RTX 3080 has no dedicated GPU-to-GPU interconnect.
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.
Memory bandwidth, tensor TFLOPS, NVLink/interconnect and max board power are the same verified-from-datasheet figures shown on each model's own AMD MI300X page and RTX 3080 page, which link the primary vendor source for that model. A dash here means Aquanode hasn't verified that figure from a primary source yet, never a guess.
Go further
Check what fits in each card's memory with the AMD MI300X VRAM calculator and the RTX 3080 VRAM calculator, see vendor-published throughput in the GPU benchmarks and specs table, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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