RTX 5080 vs RTX PRO 6000 WS: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the RTX PRO 6000 WS when 96 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 5080 when 16 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
The RTX 5080 has 16 GB of VRAM; the RTX PRO 6000 WS has 96 GB.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 5080 from $0.416/GPU/hr; RTX PRO 6000 WS from $1.47/GPU/hr. The RTX 5080 is 72% cheaper at the entry rate.
RTX 5080
Good for inference and light fine-tuning workloads
RTX PRO 6000 WS
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
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Specs side by side
| Spec | RTX 5080 | RTX PRO 6000 WS |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 16 GB | 96 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 960 GB/s | 1,792 GB/s |
| Architecture | Blackwell | Blackwell |
| Compute capability | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 |
| Peak FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS | 225.1 TFLOPS | – |
| Peak FP8 tensor TFLOPS | 450.2 TFLOPS | – |
| Max board power (TDP) | 360W | 600W |
| Regions | 2 | 1 |
On-demand price
| Rate | RTX 5080 | RTX PRO 6000 WS |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $0.416/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) | $1.47/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) |
Which is better for AI: RTX 5080 or RTX PRO 6000 WS?
Choose the RTX PRO 6000 WS when 96 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 5080 when 16 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
RTX 5080 vs RTX PRO 6000 WS: common questions
Is the RTX 5080 or the RTX PRO 6000 WS better for AI?
Short answer: choose the RTX PRO 6000 WS when 96 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 5080 when 16 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
Is the RTX 5080 or the RTX PRO 6000 WS cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 5080 starts at $0.416/GPU/hr (median $0.429/GPU/hr) and the RTX PRO 6000 WS starts at $1.47/GPU/hr (median $1.69/GPU/hr). The RTX 5080 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 72%.
What is the difference between the RTX 5080 and the RTX PRO 6000 WS?
The RTX 5080 has 16 GB of VRAM against the RTX PRO 6000 WS's 96 GB; both are Blackwell parts; both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the RTX 5080 lists from $0.416/GPU/hr and the RTX PRO 6000 WS from $1.47/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the RTX 5080 and the RTX PRO 6000 WS?
The RTX 5080 is listed in 2 regions and the RTX PRO 6000 WS in 1 region right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 5080 vs the RTX PRO 6000 WS?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $416 on the RTX 5080 and $1,471 on the RTX PRO 6000 WS, a difference of $1,054 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the RTX 5080 have compared to the RTX PRO 6000 WS?
The RTX 5080 has 16 GB of VRAM; the RTX PRO 6000 WS has 96 GB.
Does the RTX 5080 or the RTX PRO 6000 WS support NVLink?
Neither the RTX 5080 nor the RTX PRO 6000 WS has a 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 RTX 5080 page and RTX PRO 6000 WS 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 RTX 5080 VRAM calculator and the RTX PRO 6000 WS VRAM calculator, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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