A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ada Lovelace and one Ampere: 24 GB GDDR6 against 10 GB GDDR6X and 2.5x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 3080.
At a glance
Updated 4 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 300 GB/s
- From
- $0.31 /GPU/hr
- 19 providers
- Memory
- 10 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 760 GB/s
- From
- $0.10 /GPU/hr
- 5 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | L4 | RTX 3080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.31 | $0.10 | 3.3x more expensive on L4 |
| Spot | $0.13 | $0.06 | 2.3x more expensive on L4 |
| Reserved | $0.32 | $0.12 | 2.5x more expensive on L4 |
| Median | $0.90 | $0.16 | 5.7x 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 3080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | L4 | RTX 3080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6 | 10 GB GDDR6X | 2.4x more on L4 |
| Bandwidth | 300 GB/s | 760 GB/s | 2.5x higher on RTX 3080 |
| Bus width | 192-bit | 320-bit | 1.7x wider on RTX 3080 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 242 TFLOPS | Not supported | L4 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 121 TFLOPS | 59.5 TFLOPS | 2x higher on L4 |
| INT8 | 242 TOPS | 238 TOPS | Within 5% |
| FP32 | 30.3 TFLOPS | 29.8 TFLOPS | Within 5% |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 72 W | 320 W | 4.4x higher on RTX 3080 |
| Released | Q1 2023 | Q3 2020 | 2 years newer on L4 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: L4 datasheet and RTX 3080 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 3080 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.31 | On-Demand $0.10 |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.32 | On-Demand $0.10 |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.49 | On-Demand $0.17 |
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 | -- |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.18 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.20 |
19 providers list the L4 and 5 the RTX 3080. Every listing is on the L4 page and the RTX 3080 page.
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Our data for Nvidia L4 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3080 on Sept. 7, 2026.