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SaladCloud Community Cloud — RTX 5080 High Priority
SaladCloud Community Cloud offers RTX 5080 16 GB at $0.260 per GPU-hour on the High Priority tier, billed per second. The September 12, 2026 pricing change reduced this tier from $0.420/hour; capacity runs on SaladCloud's distributed Community Cloud and workloads should tolerate node reallocation.
DEAL SCORE88Current-offer attractiveness
CURRENT PRICE$0.26 / hrNative listed value
Pricing
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BILLINGOther
Fit & constraints
Fit & constraints
Use-case fit and limitations from the existing resource record.
KEY RISK
Distributed consumer GPU capacity; individual Community Cloud nodes are approximately 90–95% reliable per SaladCloud, so workloads should tolerate interruption/reallocation. High Priority is a pricing/reliability scheduling context, not dedicated hardware.
AVAILABILITY
Available
CONTRACT
Community Cloud; High Priority; per-second billing; no contracts or minimums.
Resource facts
Key specs
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GPU MODELNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
GPU COUNT1
VRAM16 GB
LOCATIONDistributed global network
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