Two Nvidia data center GPUs, one Ada Lovelace and one Maxwell: 24 GB GDDR6 against 8 GB GDDR5 and 88% more memory bandwidth on the L4.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 300 GB/s
- From
- $0.32 /GPU/hr
- 19 providers
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 160 GB/s
- From
- $0.75 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | L4 | M60 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.32 | $0.75 | 2.3x more expensive on M60 |
| Spot | $0.23 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.32 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.90 | $1.14 | 21% cheaper on L4 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
L4 vs M60 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | L4 | M60 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR5 | 3x more on L4 |
| Bandwidth | 300 GB/s | 160 GB/s | 1.9x higher on L4 |
| Bus width | 192-bit | 256-bit | 1.3x wider on M60 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 242 TFLOPS | Not supported | L4 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 121 TFLOPS | Not supported | L4 only |
| INT8 | 242 TOPS | Not supported | L4 only |
| FP32 | 30.3 TFLOPS | 4.8 TFLOPS | 6.3x higher on L4 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 72 W | 150 W | 2.1x higher on M60 |
| Released | Q1 2023 | Q3 2015 | 8 years newer on L4 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP32 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: L4 datasheet and M60 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | L4 /GPU/hr | M60 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.32 | -- |
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 | -- |
AWS
|
-- | On-Demand $0.75 |
19 providers list the L4 and 1 the M60. Every listing is on the L4 page and the M60 page.
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Our data for Nvidia L4 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia M60 on Sept. 7, 2026.