Nvidia L4 vs Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti

Both have 24 GB of memory. The RTX 3090 Ti has 3.4x the bandwidth and is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

L4: 24 GB

RTX 3090 Ti: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.4x higher on RTX 3090 Ti

L4: 300 GB/s

RTX 3090 Ti: 1,008 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

30% cheaper on RTX 3090 Ti

L4: $0.27 /GPU/hr

RTX 3090 Ti: $0.19 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L4	RTX 3090 Ti	Difference
On-demand	$0.88 /GPU/hr from $0.27	$0.27 /GPU/hr from $0.19	69% cheaper on RTX 3090 Ti
Reserved	$0.51 /GPU/hr from $0.27 (1 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.19 (48 mo)
Spot	$0.29 /GPU/hr from $0.13	-- /GPU/hr from $0.10

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 3090 Ti: 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 3090 Ti price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L4	RTX 3090 Ti	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6X	Identical
Bandwidth	300 GB/s	1,008 GB/s	3.4x higher on RTX 3090 Ti
Bus width	192-bit	384-bit	2x wider on RTX 3090 Ti
Compute · dense
FP8	242 TFLOPS	Not supported	L4 only
FP16 / BF16	121 TFLOPS	80 TFLOPS	51% higher on L4
INT8	242 TOPS	320 TOPS	32% higher on RTX 3090 Ti
FP32	30.3 TFLOPS	40 TFLOPS	32% higher on RTX 3090 Ti
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	72 W	450 W	6.2x higher on RTX 3090 Ti
Released	Q1 2023	Q1 2022	12 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 3090 Ti 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 3090 Ti
Vast.ai USA	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Jarvislabs India	$0.44 /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	--
Hexabyte Sweden	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.19 /GPU/hr On-demand