Nvidia L4 vs Nvidia RTX 4090

Both have 24 GB of memory. The RTX 4090 has 3.4x the bandwidth and is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

L4: 24 GB

RTX 4090: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.4x higher on RTX 4090

L4: 300 GB/s

RTX 4090: 1,010 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

Within 5%

L4: $0.27 /GPU/hr

RTX 4090: $0.26 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L4	RTX 4090	Difference
On-demand	$0.88 /GPU/hr from $0.27	$0.46 /GPU/hr from $0.26	47% cheaper on RTX 4090
Reserved	$0.52 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)	$0.52 /GPU/hr from $0.24 (48 mo)	Within 5%
Spot	$0.29 /GPU/hr from $0.13	$0.33 /GPU/hr from $0.16	13% cheaper on L4

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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

L4 vs RTX 4090 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L4	RTX 4090	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6X	Identical
Bandwidth	300 GB/s	1,010 GB/s	3.4x higher on RTX 4090
Bus width	192-bit	384-bit	2x wider on RTX 4090
Compute · dense
FP8	242 TFLOPS	330.3 TFLOPS	36% higher on RTX 4090
FP16 / BF16	121 TFLOPS	165.2 TFLOPS	37% higher on RTX 4090
INT8	242 TOPS	660.6 TOPS	2.7x higher on RTX 4090
FP32	30.3 TFLOPS	82.6 TFLOPS	2.7x higher on RTX 4090
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	72 W	450 W	6.2x higher on RTX 4090
Released	Q1 2023	Q4 2022
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: L4 datasheet and RTX 4090 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 4090
Vast.ai USA	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.36 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	$1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.54 /GPU/hr On-demand
Jarvislabs India	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Scaleway France	$0.89 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$1.23 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Hexabyte Sweden	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.26 /GPU/hr On-demand
Packet·ai USA	--	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPUhub Singapore	--	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lium Distributed	--	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand