NVIDIA RTX 5080 GPU: Specs, VRAM, Price & Benchmarks (2026)
The NVIDIA RTX 5080 (16GB GDDR7) launched in 2025. This guide covers its full specs, VRAM, SXM/PCIe differences where they apply, AI performance, and live per-GPU rental pricing on Aquanode.
Short answer on cost: the RTX 5080 rents from $0.434 per GPU per hour on Aquanode.
How much VRAM does the RTX 5080 have?
The RTX 5080 has 16GB GDDR7, with 960 GB/s of peak memory bandwidth.
- VRAM: RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7 vs RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7
- VRAM: RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7 vs RTX 4080 16GB GDDR6X
What fits in 16GB GDDR7 of VRAM
| Model | Precision | Fits? |
|---|---|---|
| Llama 3 8B | FP16 | roughly 16GB. Right at the limit; no KV-cache room. |
| Llama 3 8B | FP8 | ~8GB. Fits with real headroom for concurrency. |
| Mixtral 8x7B | INT4 | ~24GB. Does not fit on a single 16GB card. |
| Llama 3.1 70B | INT4 | ~35-40GB. Does not fit. |
Approximate, based on published parameter counts and standard bytes-per-parameter rules of thumb (FP16 ≈ 2 bytes/param, INT4 ≈ 0.5-0.6 bytes/param). Real footprint also depends on KV-cache size and framework overhead.
What can the RTX 5080 run?
Popular open models from small to frontier scale, with the memory each needs and how many RTX 5080 cards (16GB GDDR7 each) that takes.
| Model | As published | FP8 | INT4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen/Qwen3-8B 8.2B | BF16: ~18.3 GB, 2 GPUs | FP8: ~9.2 GB, 1 GPU | INT4: ~4.6 GB, 1 GPU |
| Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct 14.8B | BF16: ~33 GB, 3 GPUs | FP8: ~16.5 GB, 2 GPUs | INT4: ~8.3 GB, 1 GPU |
| Qwen/Qwen3-32B 32.8B | BF16: ~73.2 GB, 5 GPUs | FP8: ~36.6 GB, 3 GPUs | INT4: ~18.3 GB, 2 GPUs |
| Qwen/Qwen-72B 72.3B | BF16: ~162 GB, 11 GPUs | FP8: ~80.8 GB, 6 GPUs | INT4: ~40.4 GB, 3 GPUs |
| MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7 228.7B | FP8: ~256 GB, 16 GPUs | – | INT4: ~128 GB, 8 GPUs |
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 684.5B | FP8: ~765 GB, 48 GPUs | – | INT4: ~383 GB, 24 GPUs |
Estimates: weights at the stated precision plus a flat 20% for KV cache and overhead, at a moderate context length. A dash means the precision is not offered for that model (it is already published at that size). INT4 needs a published quantized checkpoint. Open any model for a per-GPU breakdown, or use the RTX 5080 VRAM calculator.
RTX 5080 VRAM calculator: check which models fit in its memory at each precision.
All models that fit in 16 GB: the open models whose weights and overhead fit, at native, FP8 and INT4 precision.
RTX 5080 specs
| Architecture | NVIDIA, launched 2025 |
| VRAM | 16GB GDDR7 |
| Memory bandwidth | 960 GB/s |
| FP16 / BF16 tensor throughput | 225.1 TFLOPS (peak, dense) |
| FP8 tensor throughput | 450.2 TFLOPS (peak, dense) |
| TDP | 360W |
| Form factor | PCIe, 2-slot |
Specs sourced from the vendor's public datasheet/product page. See the source.
Related reading: RTX 5080 vs RTX 5090.
GPU Glossary: What is VRAM?, Tensor Cores, CUDA Cores, TFLOPS
RTX 5080 AI performance
Blackwell FP8 and FP4 tensor cores on a consumer card, with 960 GB/s of GDDR7 behind them. More dense FP8 throughput than an L40S at a fraction of the hourly rate. Good for serving models that fit in 16GB and for fine-tuning 7B-class models.
- Dense FP16/BF16 tensor throughput: 225.1 TFLOPS
- Dense FP8 tensor throughput: 450.2 TFLOPS
- Memory bandwidth: 960 GB/s
16GB is the problem, not the compute: it's the same capacity as a two-generation-old RTX 4080, so anything past ~13B needs quantization and 70B is out entirely. No ECC and no NVLink either.
The cheapest RTX 5080 offer right now ($0.434/GPU/hr) is about 20% below the market median of $0.545/GPU/hr.
RTX 5080 price: what does it cost?
Buying. $999 (launch MSRP).
Renting. The cheapest current on-demand rate for the RTX 5080 on Aquanode is $0.434/GPU/hr (no on-demand supply right now; this is the cheapest offer overall). Live rates range from $0.434 to $0.737 per GPU per hour, with a median of $0.545/GPU/hr. Billed by the offer's own terms; the table below shows every live rate.
| Region | $/GPU/hr | Available | VRAM | vCPU | RAM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | $0.434 | 2 | 16 GB | 32 | 63 GB |
RTX 5080 price history
Aquanode stores one snapshot of its GPU price index per UTC day. For the RTX 5080 that is 22 days so far, 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-30, so this is a short history, not a long-run trend. The lowest per-GPU rate went from $0.416 on 2026-10-06 to $0.463 on 2026-10-30.
| Day (UTC) | Lowest per GPU hour | Median per GPU hour | Data-center lowest per GPU hour | Offers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | $0.463 | $0.589 | – | 10 |
| 2026-10-29 | $0.422 | $0.618 | – | 5 |
| 2026-10-28 | $0.478 | $0.598 | – | 8 |
| 2026-10-27 | $0.478 | $0.603 | – | 6 |
| 2026-10-26 | $0.543 | $0.648 | – | 9 |
| 2026-10-25 | $0.537 | $0.707 | – | 8 |
| 2026-10-24 | $0.589 | $0.670 | – | 4 |
| 2026-10-20 | $0.545 | $0.626 | – | 2 |
| 2026-10-19 | $1.48 | $1.48 | – | 1 |
| 2026-10-18 | $0.722 | $0.722 | – | 1 |
| 2026-10-17 | $0.589 | $0.589 | – | 1 |
| 2026-10-16 | $0.429 | $0.429 | – | 9 |
| 2026-10-15 | $0.429 | $0.429 | – | 8 |
| 2026-10-14 | $0.429 | $0.429 | – | 8 |
| 2026-10-13 | $0.429 | $0.429 | – | 13 |
| 2026-10-12 | $0.416 | $0.528 | – | 20 |
| 2026-10-11 | $0.416 | $0.429 | – | 16 |
| 2026-10-10 | $0.416 | $0.478 | – | 18 |
| 2026-10-09 | $0.429 | $0.429 | – | 13 |
| 2026-10-08 | $0.429 | $0.528 | – | 17 |
| 2026-10-07 | $0.429 | $0.514 | – | 19 |
| 2026-10-06 | $0.416 | $0.429 | – | 16 |
Each row is the stored daily snapshot of the live index, copied as recorded. A dash means that day stored no figure. The same series is available as JSON and summarised in the monthly GPU price report.
How this price is calculated
All prices on this page are normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using each offer's authoritative GPU count, so that raw price is divided by the number of GPUs it actually covers; some offers report price as already per-GPU, so those are used as-listed. An offer with a missing, zero, or invalid GPU count is excluded entirely rather than published at a guessed rate.
No offers were excluded from this snapshot for a missing or invalid price. No offers were dropped as price outliers in this snapshot.
Only the cheapest qualifying offer per provider is shown in the table above. This page regenerates at most once per hour.
RTX 5080 vs RTX 5090: how do they compare?
- VRAM: RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7 vs RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth: 960 GB/s vs 1,792 GB/s
On Aquanode right now, RTX 5080 starts at $0.434/GPU/hr against RTX 5090's $0.658/GPU/hr, about 34% less.
RTX 5080 vs RTX 4080: how do they compare?
- VRAM: RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7 vs RTX 4080 16GB GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth: 960 GB/s vs 716.8 GB/s
- Dense FP8 tensor throughput: 450.2 TFLOPS vs 389.9 TFLOPS
On Aquanode right now, RTX 5080 starts at $0.434/GPU/hr against RTX 4080's $0.620/GPU/hr, about 30% less.
Compare the RTX 5080 with other GPUs
Compare RTX 5080 with
- B200 vs RTX 5080
- H200 vs RTX 5080
- H100 vs RTX 5080
- A100 vs RTX 5080
- DGX A100 vs RTX 5080
- RTX 5080 vs V100
- AMD MI300X vs RTX 5080
- L40S vs RTX 5080
- L40 vs RTX 5080
- A40 vs RTX 5080
- RTX 5080 vs RTX A6000
- RTX 5080 vs RTX A5000
- RTX 5080 vs RTX A4000
- L4 vs RTX 5080
- RTX 5080 vs T4
- RTX 5080 vs RTX 6000 Ada
- RTX 5080 vs RTX PRO 6000
- RTX 5080 vs RTX PRO 6000 WS
- RTX 5080 vs RTX PRO 6000 SE
- RTX 5080 vs RTX PRO 5000
- RTX 5080 vs RTX 5090
- RTX 5070 Ti vs RTX 5080
- RTX 5070 vs RTX 5080
- RTX 5060 Ti vs RTX 5080
- RTX 4090 vs RTX 5080
- RTX 4080 Super vs RTX 5080
- RTX 4080 vs RTX 5080
- RTX 4070 Ti vs RTX 5080
- RTX 4070 Super vs RTX 5080
- RTX 4070 vs RTX 5080
- RTX 4060 Ti vs RTX 5080
- RTX 3090 vs RTX 5080
- RTX 3080 vs RTX 5080
- RTX 3070 vs RTX 5080
- RTX 3060 vs RTX 5080
- B300 vs RTX 5080
- AMD MI355X vs RTX 5080
- AMD MI325X vs RTX 5080
- H100 NVL vs RTX 5080
- RTX 5080 vs RTX PRO 4500
- RTX 5080 vs RTX PRO 4500 SE
- RTX 5080 vs RTX PRO 4000
- RTX 5080 vs RTX 5880 Ada
- RTX 5000 Ada vs RTX 5080
- RTX 4000 Ada vs RTX 5080
- RTX 4000 SFF Ada vs RTX 5080
- RTX 2000 Ada vs RTX 5080
- RTX 4070 Ti Super vs RTX 5080
- RTX 5080 vs RTX A4500
- RTX 2080 Ti vs RTX 5080
- RTX 3080 Ti vs RTX 5080
- RTX 3070 Ti vs RTX 5080
- RTX 3060 Ti vs RTX 5080
- GTX 1080 Ti vs RTX 5080
- RTX 4060 vs RTX 5080
- RTX 5060 vs RTX 5080
- GTX 1660 Super vs RTX 5080
- RTX 2060 vs RTX 5080
- Radeon RX 9070 XT vs RTX 5080
- Radeon RX 6700 XT vs RTX 5080
- RTX 5080 vs RTX 6000
- A16 vs RTX 5080
- P40 vs RTX 5080
- P4 vs RTX 5080
- Quadro P2000 vs RTX 5080
- Quadro M4000 vs RTX 5080
Get notified when the price drops
GPU supply moves hourly. Tell us what you're waiting for and we'll email you when a matching offer appears across any provider we track.
Rent a RTX 5080 on Aquanode
- On-demand instances from $0.434/GPU/hr, billed by the provider's own terms, with no hardware procurement or long-term commitment.
- 11 live offers across 1 region today.
- Set a price/availability alert above to hear the moment a cheaper or newly-available RTX 5080 offer appears.
- Compare every RTX 5080 offer side by side, or browse the full multi-provider GPU marketplace.
Good for
Blackwell FP8 and FP4 tensor cores on a consumer card, with 960 GB/s of GDDR7 behind them. More dense FP8 throughput than an L40S at a fraction of the hourly rate. Good for serving models that fit in 16GB and for fine-tuning 7B-class models.
Not good for
16GB is the problem, not the compute: it's the same capacity as a two-generation-old RTX 4080, so anything past ~13B needs quantization and 70B is out entirely. No ECC and no NVLink either.
RTX 5080 FAQs
How much VRAM does the RTX 5080 have?
The RTX 5080 has 16GB GDDR7, with 960 GB/s of peak memory bandwidth.
What is the NVIDIA RTX 5080?
The NVIDIA RTX 5080 is a GPU released in 2025, with 16GB GDDR7 of memory and a 360W power envelope. See the full spec table above for interconnect, form factor and tensor-throughput details.
How much does it cost to rent a RTX 5080?
Live RTX 5080 rental prices currently range from $0.434 to $0.737 per GPU per hour, with a median of $0.545 per GPU per hour.
What's the cheapest RTX 5080 rate?
The lowest current RTX 5080 rate on Aquanode is $0.434 per GPU per hour in Australia.
How does the RTX 5080 compare to the RTX 5090?
VRAM: RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7 vs RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7 Memory bandwidth: 960 GB/s vs 1,792 GB/s On Aquanode right now, RTX 5080 starts at $0.434/GPU/hr against RTX 5090's $0.658/GPU/hr, about 34% less. See the full RTX 5080 vs RTX 5090 comparison for a shared-provider price breakdown.
How does the RTX 5080 compare to the RTX 4080?
VRAM: RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7 vs RTX 4080 16GB GDDR6X Memory bandwidth: 960 GB/s vs 716.8 GB/s Dense FP8 tensor throughput: 450.2 TFLOPS vs 389.9 TFLOPS On Aquanode right now, RTX 5080 starts at $0.434/GPU/hr against RTX 4080's $0.620/GPU/hr, about 30% less. See the full RTX 5080 vs RTX 4080 comparison for a shared-provider price breakdown.
What is the RTX 5080 good for?
Blackwell FP8 and FP4 tensor cores on a consumer card, with 960 GB/s of GDDR7 behind them. More dense FP8 throughput than an L40S at a fraction of the hourly rate. Good for serving models that fit in 16GB and for fine-tuning 7B-class models.
What are the RTX 5080's limitations?
16GB is the problem, not the compute: it's the same capacity as a two-generation-old RTX 4080, so anything past ~13B needs quantization and 70B is out entirely. No ECC and no NVLink either.
Is renting cheaper than buying?
Renting avoids the upfront hardware cost and lets you match spend to actual usage. A rented RTX 5080 at $0.434/hr only costs money while it's running, whereas buying ties up capital in hardware that keeps depreciating whether it's in use or not. Buying outright runs $999 (launch MSRP). Which is cheaper depends on how continuously you'd run it; short or bursty workloads usually favor renting.
How is the RTX 5080 price calculated?
All prices are normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using each offer's authoritative GPU count, which the raw price is divided by; some offers report price as already per-GPU. Offers whose price can't be safely normalized, or whose rate is an extreme outlier against the rest of the market, are excluded.
RTX 5080 price by region
Related guides
Other models in the same generation, then the rest of the GPU index.
