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RTX 3080 cloud GPU pricing

11 listings across 8 providers. Cheapest published rate: $0.030/GPU/hr at QuickPod. Sorted by per-GPU hourly price. Every row links to the provider's own published price.

WHAT IS THE RTX 3080

The card that defined pandemic-era GPU scarcity remains a catalog staple: fast GDDR6X bandwidth, Ampere tensor cores, and a 10-12 GB ceiling. It serves 7B-class models and media workloads well at budget rates - a known quantity, priced like one.

MAKER
NVIDIA
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
LAUNCHED
2020
MEMORY
10 or 12 GB GDDR6X
MEMORY BANDWIDTH
760 GB/s (912 GB/s for the 12 GB)
TENSOR COMPUTE
29.8 TFLOPS FP32; 3rd-gen tensor cores
POWER DRAW
320 W (350 W for the 12 GB)
INTERCONNECT
PCIe 4.0 x16

WHAT IT IS GOOD AT

7B-class inference
Good - 760 GB/s serves quantized 7B models comfortably.
Media generation
Proven diffusion workhorse.
Fine-tuning
LoRA on 7B-class models at most.

WHO SHOULD NOT RENT THE RTX 3080

13B+ models - even the 12 GB variant runs out.
FP8 stacks - Ampere has no hardware FP8.
ProviderConfigVRAMLocation$/hr$/GPU/hrSource
QuickPodQuickPodRTX 3080 × 110 GBNot published$0.030$0.030receipt
SaladSaladRTX 3080 × 110 GBGlobal (distributed)$0.060$0.060receipt
SpotGPUsSpotGPUsRTX 3080 × 110 GBNot published$0.060$0.060receipt
Gitee AIGitee AIRTX 3080 × 110 GBChina$0.131$0.131receipt
FeaturizeFeaturizeRTX 3080 × 110.5 GBChina$0.138$0.138receipt
AutoDLAutoDLRTX 3080 × 110 GBChina$0.138$0.138receipt
RunPodRunPodRTX 3080 × 110 GBGlobal$0.170$0.170receipt
GPUBrazilGPUBrazilRTX 3080 × 110 GBAsia-Pacific$0.320$0.320receipt
GPUBrazilGPUBrazilRTX 3080 × 110 GBEurope$0.320$0.320receipt
GPUBrazilGPUBrazilRTX 3080 × 110 GBSouth America$0.349$0.349receipt
GPUBrazilGPUBrazilRTX 3080 × 110 GBNorth America$0.474$0.474receipt

THE RTX 3080 MARKET, BY THE NUMBERS

PROVIDERS
8
CONFIGURATIONS
11
MEDIAN $/GPU/HR
$0.14
SPREAD
15.8x

8 providers publish 11 RTX 3080 configurations on the panel today. Published per-GPU hourly rates run from $0.030 (QuickPod) to $0.47 (GPUBrazil), a 16x spread between the cheapest and the most expensive published rate for the same chip. The median listing sits at $0.14/GPU/hr. 8 rows were reported in stock by the provider at last observation; the rest are published catalog rates. All rates are on-demand - committed-use and reserved pricing is excluded.

CHEAPEST RTX 3080 BY GEOGRAPHY
chinaGitee AI$0.131/hrunited statesGPUBrazil$0.474/hr
RTX 3080 PRICE TREND, DAILY PANEL SNAPSHOTS

Across every RTX 3080 row on the panel, the daily floor moved from $0.060 to $0.030/GPU/hr over 11 days of tracking (-50.0%). Snapshots run daily; the full history is public in the repo.

RTX 3080 PROVIDER NOTES
QuickPod · 1 config · 1 in stock
Sets the panel floor for this model.
from $0.030/hr
Salad · 1 config · 1 region
Published catalog rates.
from $0.060/hr
SpotGPUs · 1 config · 1 in stock
1 of 1 configs reported in stock at last check.
from $0.060/hr
Gitee AI · 1 config · 1 region
Published catalog rates.
from $0.131/hr
Featurize · 1 config · 1 region · 1 in stock
1 of 1 configs reported in stock at last check.
from $0.138/hr
AutoDL · 1 config · 1 region
Published catalog rates.
from $0.138/hr
RunPod · 1 config · 1 region · 1 in stock
1 of 1 configs reported in stock at last check.
from $0.170/hr
GPUBrazil · 4 configs · 4 regions · 4 in stock
Widest regional footprint here - 4 regions.
from $0.320/hr
BUYING RTX 3080: WHAT THE PANEL SAYS

At the current floor, one RTX 3080 running around the clock costs about $22 a month (730 hours of on-demand arithmetic). Compare the alternatives below before committing - the same budget often buys more than one chip class.

RTX 3080 VS THE ALTERNATIVES

RTX 3080 vs RTX 3080 Ti
The Ti adds 2 GB, 20% more bandwidth, and ~15% more compute for a small premium - worth it when the spread is narrow.
RTX 3080 vs RTX 4070
Same 12 GB class, one generation newer, lower power. Similar model fit - pick on panel price.

Compare live rates: RTX 3080 vs RTX 3080 Ti · RTX 3080 vs RTX 4070

RTX 3080 PRICING FAQ

What is the cheapest RTX 3080 cloud GPU right now?
The cheapest published RTX 3080 rate on the panel is $0.030 per GPU-hour at QuickPod (RTX 3080 x 1, Not published). Every price links to the provider's own published rate.
How much does a RTX 3080 cost per hour?
Across 8 providers tracked today, published per-GPU hourly rates for RTX 3080 run from $0.03 to $0.47, with a median of $0.14. Committed-use and reserved rates are excluded; everything shown is on-demand.
How many providers rent RTX 3080 GPUs?
8 providers publish 11 distinct RTX 3080 configurations on Compute Cafe. 8 of those rows were reported in stock by the provider's live endpoint at last observation.
Where is RTX 3080 cheapest?
By published per-GPU hourly rate, the cheapest geography for RTX 3080 today is china at $0.13/hr (Gitee AI). The spread across 2 tracked geographies runs to $0.47/hr in united states.
Are RTX 3080 prices going up or down?
Over the 11 days Compute Cafe has tracked the panel, the RTX 3080 floor is falling: $0.060 to $0.030/GPU/hr (-50.0%). Daily snapshots are public in the repo, so the trend is auditable.
What does a RTX 3080 cost per month?
At the current floor of $0.030/GPU/hr, a RTX 3080 running 24/7 costs about $22 per month (730 hours of on-demand arithmetic on the cheapest published rate). Committed-use contracts can price lower; the panel tracks on-demand rates only.
Is the RTX 3080 still worth renting?
For 7B-class serving and media work, yes - it is a known quantity at budget rates. For anything past that, 10-12 GB is the ceiling.

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