A workstation GPU against a data center card, one Ampere and one Pascal: 16 GB GDDR6 against 8 GB GDDR5 and 2.3x the memory bandwidth on the A4000.
At a glance
Updated 21 minutes ago- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.08 /GPU/hr
- 12 providers
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- From
- $0.65 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A4000 | P4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.08 | $0.65 | 8.4x more expensive on P4 |
| Spot | $0.08 | $0.12 | 32% cheaper on A4000 |
| Reserved | $0.05 | $0.34 | 6.4x more expensive on P4 |
| Median | $0.19 | $0.81 | 4.3x more expensive on P4 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A4000 vs P4 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A4000 | P4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR5 | 2x more on A4000 |
| Bandwidth | 448 GB/s | 192 GB/s | 2.3x higher on A4000 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 256-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 76.7 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | 22 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 19.2 TFLOPS | 5.5 TFLOPS | 3.5x higher on A4000 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 140 W | 75 W | 1.9x higher on A4000 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q3 2016 | 5 years newer on A4000 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A4000 datasheet and P4 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A4000 /GPU/hr | P4 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.08 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.10 | -- |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.17 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.88 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.88 | -- |
Hyperstack
|
On-Demand $0.15 | -- |
TensorDock
|
On-Demand $0.21 | -- |
Paperspace
|
On-Demand $0.76 | -- |
Google Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.65 |
12 providers list the A4000 and 1 the P4. Every listing is on the A4000 page and the P4 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A4000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia P4 on Sept. 7, 2026.