A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Ampere and one Pascal: 24 GB HBM2 against 8 GB GDDR5 and 3.8x the memory bandwidth on the A30.

At a glance

Updated 6 minutes ago
Memory
24 GB
HBM2
Memory bandwidth
933 GB/s
From
$0.29 /GPU/hr
8 providers
Memory
8 GB
GDDR5
Memory bandwidth
243 GB/s
From
$0.04 /GPU/hr
2 providers

Price comparison

Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.

Billing A30 P4000 Difference
On-demand $0.29 $0.04 7x more expensive on A30
Spot No spot listings $0.04
Reserved $0.43 $0.06 6.9x more expensive on A30
Median $0.55 $0.28 49% cheaper on P4000

Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Price history

A30 vs P4000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months
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Specs comparison

Spec A30 P4000 Difference
Memory
Capacity 24 GB HBM2 8 GB GDDR5 3x more on A30
Bandwidth 933 GB/s 243 GB/s 3.8x higher on A30
Bus width 256-bit
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16 165 TFLOPS
INT8 330 TOPS Not supported A30 only
FP32 10.3 TFLOPS 5.3 TFLOPS 1.9x higher on A30
FP64 5.2 TFLOPS Not supported A30 only
Platform
Interconnect PCIe only PCIe only
Board power 165 W 105 W 1.6x higher on A30
Released Q2 2021 Q1 2017 4 years newer on A30
Precision
Supported formats FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8 FP16FP32

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

Source: A30 datasheet and P4000 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider A30 /GPU/hr P4000 /GPU/hr
GPU.ai logo GPU.ai On-Demand $0.29 --
Massed Compute logo Massed Compute On-Demand $0.35 --
EmpirioLabs AI logo EmpirioLabs AI On-Demand $0.55 --
Leafcloud logo Leafcloud On-Demand $0.70 --
Exoscale logo Exoscale On-Demand $0.74 --
Leaseweb logo Leaseweb Reserved (1mo) $0.43 --
AceCloud logo AceCloud Reserved (12mo) $0.67 --
Sesterce logo Sesterce On-Demand $0.39 --
Vast.ai logo Vast.ai -- On-Demand $0.0415
Paperspace logo Paperspace -- On-Demand $0.51

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Our data for Nvidia A30 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia P4000 on Sept. 7, 2026.