A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ada Lovelace and one Ampere: 24 GB GDDR6 against 8 GB GDDR6 and 34% more memory bandwidth on the L4.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 300 GB/s
- From
- $0.44 /GPU/hr
- 18 providers
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 224 GB/s
- From
- $0.07 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | L4 | RTX 3050 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.44 | $0.07 | 6.3x more expensive on L4 |
| Spot | $0.34 | $0.03 | 11x more expensive on L4 |
| Reserved | $0.32 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.91 | $0.07 | 13x more expensive on L4 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
L4 vs RTX 3050 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | L4 | RTX 3050 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 3x more on L4 |
| Bandwidth | 300 GB/s | 224 GB/s | 1.3x higher on L4 |
| Bus width | 192-bit | 128-bit | 1.5x wider on L4 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 242 TFLOPS | Not supported | L4 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 121 TFLOPS | 18.2 TFLOPS | 6.6x higher on L4 |
| INT8 | 242 TOPS | 72.8 TOPS | 3.3x higher on L4 |
| FP32 | 30.3 TFLOPS | 9.1 TFLOPS | 3.3x higher on L4 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 72 W | 130 W | 1.8x higher on RTX 3050 |
| Released | Q1 2023 | Q1 2022 | 14 months newer on L4 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: L4 datasheet and RTX 3050 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | L4 /GPU/hr | RTX 3050 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.44 | -- |
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 | -- |
Leaseweb
|
On-Demand $0.45 | -- |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.07 |
18 providers list the L4 and 1 the RTX 3050. Every listing is on the L4 page and the RTX 3050 page.
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Our data for Nvidia L4 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3050 on Sept. 7, 2026.