A consumer GPU against a data center card, one Kepler and one Pascal: 2 GB DDR3 against 8 GB GDDR5 and 14x the memory bandwidth on the P4.
At a glance
Updated 8 hours ago- Memory
- 2 GB
- DDR3
- Memory bandwidth
- 14 GB/s
- From
- --
- 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 | GT 730 | P4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | -- | $0.65 | |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.12 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.34 | |
| Median | -- | $0.81 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GT 730 vs P4 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GT 730 | P4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 2 GB DDR3 | 8 GB GDDR5 | 4x more on P4 |
| Bandwidth | 14 GB/s | 192 GB/s | 14x higher on P4 |
| Bus width | 64-bit | 256-bit | 4x wider on P4 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| INT8 | Not supported | 22 TOPS | P4 only |
| FP32 | 0.7 TFLOPS | 5.5 TFLOPS | 8x higher on P4 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 23 W | 75 W | 3.3x higher on P4 |
| Released | Q2 2014 | Q3 2016 | 2 years newer on P4 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP32 | FP16FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: P4 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | GT 730 /GPU/hr | P4 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Google Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.65 |
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Our data for Nvidia GT 730 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia P4 on Sept. 7, 2026.