A consumer GPU against a data center card, one Turing and one Ada Lovelace: 4 GB GDDR5 against 24 GB GDDR6 and 2.3x the memory bandwidth on the L4.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 4 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 128 GB/s
- From
- $0.02 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 300 GB/s
- From
- $0.31 /GPU/hr
- 19 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | GTX 1650 | L4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.02 | $0.31 | 16x more expensive on L4 |
| Spot | $0.01 | $0.20 | 13x more expensive on L4 |
| Reserved | $0.14 | $0.32 | 2.3x more expensive on L4 |
| Median | $0.02 | $0.90 | 45x more expensive on L4 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1650 vs L4 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1650 | L4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 4 GB GDDR5 | 24 GB GDDR6 | 6x more on L4 |
| Bandwidth | 128 GB/s | 300 GB/s | 2.3x higher on L4 |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 192-bit | 1.5x wider on L4 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 242 TFLOPS | L4 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 6.0 TFLOPS | 121 TFLOPS | 20x higher on L4 |
| INT8 | Not supported | 242 TOPS | L4 only |
| FP32 | 3.0 TFLOPS | 30.3 TFLOPS | 10x higher on L4 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 75 W | 72 W | Within 5% |
| Released | Q2 2019 | Q1 2023 | 4 years newer on L4 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1650 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 1650 /GPU/hr | L4 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0200 | -- |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.14 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.31 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.32 |
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 |
2 providers list the GTX 1650 and 19 the L4. Every listing is on the GTX 1650 page and the L4 page.
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1650 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia L4 on Sept. 7, 2026.