Nvidia L4 vs Nvidia RTX 3070

The L4 is newer and has 3x the memory, while the RTX 3070 has 49% more bandwidth. The RTX 3070 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on L4

L4: 24 GB

RTX 3070: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

49% higher on RTX 3070

L4: 300 GB/s

RTX 3070: 448 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

78% cheaper on RTX 3070

L4: $0.32 /GPU/hr

RTX 3070: $0.07 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L4	RTX 3070	Difference
On-demand	$0.88 /GPU/hr from $0.32	$0.11 /GPU/hr from $0.07	87% cheaper on RTX 3070
Reserved	$0.52 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.08 (1 mo)
Spot	$0.41 /GPU/hr from $0.13	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04

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 reserved and spot on the RTX 3070: 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

L4 vs RTX 3070 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L4	RTX 3070	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	3x more on L4
Bandwidth	300 GB/s	448 GB/s	49% higher on RTX 3070
Bus width	192-bit	256-bit	33% wider on RTX 3070
Compute · dense
FP8	242 TFLOPS	Not supported	L4 only
FP16 / BF16	121 TFLOPS	40.6 TFLOPS	3x higher on L4
INT8	242 TOPS	162.6 TOPS	49% higher on L4
FP32	30.3 TFLOPS	20.3 TFLOPS	49% higher on L4
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	72 W	220 W	3.1x higher on RTX 3070
Released	Q1 2023	Q4 2020	2 years newer on L4
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: L4 datasheet and RTX 3070 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	L4	RTX 3070
Vast.ai USA	$0.32 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Jarvislabs India	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
UpCloud Finland	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Scaleway France	$0.89 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$1.23 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand