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Nvidia K80 vs Nvidia P4

Two Nvidia data center GPUs, one Kepler and one Pascal: 12 GB GDDR5 against 8 GB GDDR5 and 25% more memory bandwidth on the K80.

At a glance

Updated 13 hours ago

Nvidia K80

Memory: 12 GB; GDDR5
Memory bandwidth: 240 GB/s
From: $0.90 /GPU/hr; 2 providers

Nvidia P4

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	K80	P4	Difference
On-demand	$0.90	$0.65	27% cheaper on P4
Spot	No spot listings	$0.12
Reserved	$0.04	$0.34	7.7x more expensive on P4
Median	$0.90	$0.81	10% cheaper on P4

Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Price history

K80 vs P4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	K80	P4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	12 GB GDDR5	8 GB GDDR5	1.5x more on K80
Bandwidth	240 GB/s	192 GB/s	1.2x higher on K80
Bus width	384-bit	256-bit	1.5x wider on K80
Compute · dense
INT8	Not supported	22 TOPS	P4 only
FP32	4.4 TFLOPS	5.5 TFLOPS	1.3x higher on P4
FP64	1.5 TFLOPS	Not supported	K80 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	150 W	75 W	2x higher on K80
Released	Q4 2014	Q3 2016	2 years newer on P4
Precision
Supported formats	FP32FP64	FP16FP32INT8

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

Source: K80 datasheet and P4 datasheet.

Where to rent them

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

Provider	K80 /GPU/hr	P4 /GPU/hr
AWS	On-Demand $0.90	--
Database Mart	Reserved (24mo) $0.0447	--
Google Cloud	--	On-Demand $0.65

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Our data for Nvidia K80 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia P4 on Sept. 7, 2026.