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GTX 1060 vs L4

Nvidia GTX 1060 vs Nvidia L4

A consumer GPU against a data center card, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 6 GB GDDR5 against 24 GB GDDR6 and 56% more memory bandwidth on the L4.

At a glance

Memory

GTX 1060: 6 GB
L4: 24 GB

4x more on L4

Memory bandwidth

GTX 1060: 192 GB/s
L4: 300 GB/s

1.6x higher on L4

Cheapest on-demand

GTX 1060: $0.03 /GPU/hr
L4: $0.44 /GPU/hr

15x more expensive on L4

Price comparison

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

Billing	GTX 1060	L4
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03	$0.90 /GPU/hr from $0.44
Reserved	No reserved listings	$0.53 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.02	-- /GPU/hr from $0.34

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 on-demand and spot on the GTX 1060 and 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

GTX 1060 vs L4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	GTX 1060	L4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	6 GB GDDR5	24 GB GDDR6	4x more on L4
Bandwidth	192 GB/s	300 GB/s	1.6x higher on L4
Bus width	192-bit	192-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	242 TFLOPS	L4 only
FP16 / BF16		121 TFLOPS
INT8	Not supported	242 TOPS	L4 only
FP32	4.4 TFLOPS	30.3 TFLOPS	6.9x higher on L4
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	120 W	72 W	1.7x higher on GTX 1060
Released	Q3 2016	Q1 2023	7 years newer on L4
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

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

Source: GTX 1060 datasheet and L4 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider	GTX 1060 /GPU/hr	L4 /GPU/hr
Salad	On-Demand $0.0300	--
GPU.ai	--	On-Demand $0.44
Runpod	--	On-Demand $0.49
UpCloud	--	On-Demand $0.69
Scaleway	--	On-Demand $0.91
Sesterce	--	On-Demand $1.04
Runcrate	--	On-Demand $1.05
Hexabyte	--	On-Demand $0.42
Koyeb	--	On-Demand $0.70