Nvidia A100 vs Nvidia T4

The A100 is newer, with 5x the memory and 6.5x the bandwidth. The T4 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

5x more on A100

A100: 80 GB

T4: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

6.5x higher on A100

A100: 1,935 GB/s

T4: 300 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

74% cheaper on T4

A100: $0.43 /GPU/hr

T4: $0.11 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	A100	T4	Difference
On-demand	$1.76 /GPU/hr from $0.43	$0.64 /GPU/hr from $0.11	64% cheaper on T4
Reserved	$1.63 /GPU/hr from $0.47 (1 mo)	$0.43 /GPU/hr from $0.20 (36 mo)	74% cheaper on T4
Spot	$1.14 /GPU/hr from $0.31	$0.26 /GPU/hr from $0.06	77% cheaper on T4

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

A100 vs T4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A100	T4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe	16 GB GDDR6	5x more on A100
Bandwidth	1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe	300 GB/s	6.5x higher on A100
Bus width	5,120-bit	256-bit	20x wider on A100
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	312 TFLOPS	65 TFLOPS	4.8x higher on A100
INT8	624 TOPS	130 TOPS	4.8x higher on A100
FP32	19.5 TFLOPS	8.1 TFLOPS	2.4x higher on A100
FP64	9.7 TFLOPS	Not supported	A100 only
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 600 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on A100 only
Board power	300 W	70 W	4.3x higher on A100
Released	Q2 2020	Q3 2018	2 years newer on A100
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: A100 datasheet and T4 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	A100	T4
Vast.ai USA	$0.43 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Thunder Compute USA	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Massed Compute USA	$1.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Packet·ai USA	$1.43 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Spheron Singapore	$1.43 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Oblivus USA	$1.47 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Zenlayer USA	--	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand
Hugging Face USA	--	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand
Google Cloud USA	--	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand
AWS USA	--	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand
Azure USA	--	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand
Cerebrium USA	--	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand