Nvidia RTX A6000 vs Nvidia P4

The RTX A6000 is newer, with 6x the memory and 4x the bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

6x more on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: 48 GB

P4: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

4x higher on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: 768 GB/s

P4: 192 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

39% cheaper on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: $0.40 /GPU/hr

P4: $0.65 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX A6000	P4
On-demand	$0.66 /GPU/hr from $0.40	-- /GPU/hr from $0.65
Reserved	$0.48 /GPU/hr from $0.26 (6 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.34 (36 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.20	-- /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 spot on the RTX A6000 and 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

RTX A6000 vs P4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX A6000	P4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR5	6x more on RTX A6000
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	192 GB/s	4x higher on RTX A6000
Bus width	384-bit	256-bit	50% wider on RTX A6000
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	154.8 TFLOPS
INT8	309.7 TOPS	22 TOPS	14x higher on RTX A6000
FP32	38.7 TFLOPS	5.5 TFLOPS	7x higher on RTX A6000
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX A6000 only
Board power	300 W	75 W	4x higher on RTX A6000
Released	Q4 2020	Q3 2016	4 years newer on RTX A6000
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT8

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

Source: RTX A6000 datasheet and P4 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	RTX A6000	P4
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Vast.ai USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Massed Compute USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Spheron Singapore	$0.66 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Beam USA	$0.54 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Google Cloud USA	--	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand