Nvidia RTX A6000 vs Nvidia L4

The RTX A6000 has 2x the memory and 2.6x the bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: 48 GB

L4: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.6x higher on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: 768 GB/s

L4: 300 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

7% cheaper on L4

RTX A6000: $0.35 /GPU/hr

L4: $0.33 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX A6000	L4	Difference
On-demand	$0.60 /GPU/hr from $0.35	$0.86 /GPU/hr from $0.33	31% cheaper on RTX A6000
Reserved	$0.64 /GPU/hr from $0.35	$0.52 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)	19% cheaper on L4
Spot	$0.47 /GPU/hr from $0.40	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29

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 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

RTX A6000 vs L4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX A6000	L4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6	2x more on RTX A6000
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	300 GB/s	2.6x higher on RTX A6000
Bus width	384-bit	192-bit	2x wider on RTX A6000
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	242 TFLOPS	L4 only
FP16 / BF16	154.8 TFLOPS	121 TFLOPS	28% higher on RTX A6000
INT8	309.7 TOPS	242 TOPS	28% higher on RTX A6000
FP32	38.7 TFLOPS	30.3 TFLOPS	28% higher on RTX A6000
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX A6000 only
Board power	300 W	72 W	4.2x higher on RTX A6000
Released	Q4 2020	Q1 2023	2 years newer on L4
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: RTX A6000 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	RTX A6000	L4
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand
Thunder Compute USA	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lium Distributed	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Hyperstack UK	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Spheron Singapore	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Massed Compute USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Oblivus USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand
Jarvislabs India	--	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand
Scaleway France	--	$0.88 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	--	$1.23 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Hexabyte Sweden	--	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand