A consumer GPU against a workstation card, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 4 GB GDDR5 against 24 GB GDDR6 and 3.9x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 4500 Ada.
At a glance
Updated 45 minutes ago- Memory
- 4 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 112 GB/s
- From
- $0.02 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 432 GB/s
- From
- --
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GTX 1050 Ti | RTX 4500 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.02 | -- | |
| Spot | $0.01 | No spot listings | |
| Median | $0.02 | -- |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1050 Ti vs RTX 4500 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1050 Ti | RTX 4500 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 4 GB GDDR5 | 24 GB GDDR6 | 6x more on RTX 4500 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 112 GB/s | 432 GB/s | 3.9x higher on RTX 4500 Ada |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 192-bit | 1.5x wider on RTX 4500 Ada |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 317 TFLOPS | RTX 4500 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 158.5 TFLOPS | ||
| FP32 | 2.1 TFLOPS | 39.6 TFLOPS | 19x higher on RTX 4500 Ada |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 75 W | 210 W | 2.8x higher on RTX 4500 Ada |
| Released | Q4 2016 | Q3 2023 | 7 years newer on RTX 4500 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1050 Ti datasheet and RTX 4500 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 4500 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0200 | -- |
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.