A consumer GPU against a workstation card, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 4 GB GDDR5 against 20 GB GDDR6 and 3.2x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 4000 Ada.
At a glance
Updated 10 minutes ago- Memory
- 4 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 112 GB/s
- From
- $0.02 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 20 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- From
- $0.52 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GTX 1050 Ti | RTX 4000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.02 | $0.52 | 26x more expensive on RTX 4000 Ada |
| Spot | $0.01 | No spot listings | |
| Median | $0.02 | $0.75 | 38x more expensive on RTX 4000 Ada |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1050 Ti vs RTX 4000 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1050 Ti | RTX 4000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 4 GB GDDR5 | 20 GB GDDR6 | 5x more on RTX 4000 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 112 GB/s | 360 GB/s | 3.2x higher on RTX 4000 Ada |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 160-bit | 1.2x wider on RTX 4000 Ada |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 213.8 TFLOPS | RTX 4000 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 106.9 TFLOPS | ||
| FP32 | 2.1 TFLOPS | 26.7 TFLOPS | 12x higher on RTX 4000 Ada |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 75 W | 130 W | 1.7x higher on RTX 4000 Ada |
| Released | Q4 2016 | Q3 2023 | 7 years newer on RTX 4000 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1050 Ti datasheet and RTX 4000 Ada datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | GTX 1050 Ti /GPU/hr | RTX 4000 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0200 | -- |
Akamai Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.52 |
DigitalOcean
|
-- | On-Demand $0.76 |
Runpod
|
-- | Reservation on request |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $0.87 |
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.