Nvidia A16 vs Nvidia P4

The A16 is newer and has 2x the memory, with about the same bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on A16

A16: 16 GB

P4: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

Within 5%

A16: 200 GB/s

P4: 192 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

A16: --

P4: $0.65 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A16	P4
On-demand	Sold out	-- /GPU/hr from $0.65
Reserved	No reserved listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.34 (36 mo)
Spot	No spot listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11

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. No median for on-demand, reserved and spot on the P4: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

A16 vs P4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A16	P4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR5	2x more on A16
Bandwidth	200 GB/s	192 GB/s	Within 5%
Bus width	128-bit	256-bit	2x wider on P4
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	17.9 TFLOPS
INT8	35.9 TOPS	22 TOPS	63% higher on A16
FP32	4.5 TFLOPS	5.5 TFLOPS	22% higher on P4
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Released	Q2 2021	Q3 2016	5 years newer on A16
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT8