RTX 3080 vs T4: specs and rental price compared

RTX 3080 from $0.123/GPU/hr across 1 provider; T4 from $0.158/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The RTX 3080 is 22% cheaper at the entry rate.

RTX 3080
$0.123/hr
Lowest / GPU
$0.163/hr
Median / GPU
10 GB
VRAM
Ampere
Architecture
T4
$0.158/hr
Lowest / GPU
$0.158/hr
Median / GPU
16 GB
VRAM
Turing
Architecture

Specs side by side

Spec
RTX 3080
T4
VRAM
10 GB
16 GB
Architecture
Ampere
Turing
Compute capability
8.6
7.5
Precisions in hardware
FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4
FP32, FP16, INT4
Interconnect
PCIe
PCIe
Lowest $/GPU/hr
$0.123
$0.158
Median $/GPU/hr
$0.163
$0.158
Providers
1
1
Regions
1
1

Price by provider

Provider
RTX 3080 $/GPU/hr
T4 $/GPU/hr
Vast.ai
$0.123
Akash
$0.158

RTX 3080 vs T4: common questions

Is the RTX 3080 or the T4 cheaper to rent?

On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 3080 starts at $0.123/GPU/hr (median $0.163/GPU/hr across 1 provider) and the T4 starts at $0.158/GPU/hr (median $0.158/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The RTX 3080 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 22%.

What is the difference between the RTX 3080 and the T4?

The RTX 3080 has 10 GB of VRAM against the T4's 16 GB; the RTX 3080 is an Ampere part and the T4 is Turing (compute capability 8.6 vs 7.5); only the RTX 3080 supports BF16 compute. On price, the RTX 3080 lists from $0.123/GPU/hr and the T4 from $0.158/GPU/hr.

Which cloud providers offer the RTX 3080 and the T4?

1 provider list the RTX 3080 (Vast.ai) and 1 list the T4 (Akash), across 1 and 1 region respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.

How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 3080 vs the T4?

At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $123 on the RTX 3080 and $158 on the T4 — a difference of $34 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.

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