Nvidia A5000 vs Nvidia L4

The A5000 has 2.6x the bandwidth, with the same 24 GB of memory.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

A5000: 24 GB

L4: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.6x higher on A5000

A5000: 768 GB/s

L4: 300 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

28% cheaper on A5000

A5000: $0.23 /GPU/hr

L4: $0.32 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A5000	L4	Difference
On-demand	$1.24 /GPU/hr from $0.23	$0.88 /GPU/hr from $0.32	29% cheaper on L4
Reserved	$0.35 /GPU/hr from $0.23 (1 mo)	$0.53 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)	34% cheaper on A5000
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.09	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13

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 spot on the A5000 and spot on the L4: 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

A5000 vs L4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A5000	L4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	300 GB/s	2.6x higher on A5000
Bus width	384-bit	192-bit	2x wider on A5000
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	242 TFLOPS	L4 only
FP16 / BF16	111.1 TFLOPS	121 TFLOPS	9% higher on L4
INT8		242 TOPS
FP32	27.8 TFLOPS	30.3 TFLOPS	9% higher on L4
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on A5000 only
Board power	230 W	72 W	3.2x higher on A5000
Released	Q2 2021	Q1 2023	2 years newer on L4
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: A5000 datasheet and L4 datasheet.

Where to rent them

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

Provider	A5000	L4
Vast.ai USA	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.32 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.24 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	$1.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	$1.85 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	$1.23 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Salad Distributed	$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Paperspace USA	$1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Database Mart USA	$0.25 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Runpod USA	--	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand
Scaleway France	--	$0.89 /GPU/hr On-demand
Hexabyte Sweden	--	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand
Leaseweb Netherlands	--	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand