Nvidia L4 vs Nvidia RTX 5050

The L4 has 3x the memory, while the RTX 5050 is newer and has 7% more bandwidth. The RTX 5050 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on L4

L4: 24 GB

RTX 5050: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

7% higher on RTX 5050

L4: 300 GB/s

RTX 5050: 320 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

78% cheaper on RTX 5050

L4: $0.33 /GPU/hr

RTX 5050: $0.07 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L4	RTX 5050
On-demand	$0.80 /GPU/hr from $0.33	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07
Reserved	$0.53 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03

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 spot on the L4 and on-demand and spot on the RTX 5050: 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 5050 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L4	RTX 5050	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	3x more on L4
Bandwidth	300 GB/s	320 GB/s	7% higher on RTX 5050
Bus width	192-bit	128-bit	50% wider on L4
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	210.5 TFLOPS	RTX 5050 only
FP8	242 TFLOPS	52.6 TFLOPS	4.6x higher on L4
FP16 / BF16	121 TFLOPS	26.3 TFLOPS	4.6x higher on L4
INT8	242 TOPS	105.3 TOPS	2.3x higher on L4
FP32	30.3 TFLOPS	13.2 TFLOPS	2.3x higher on L4
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	72 W	130 W	81% higher on RTX 5050
Released	Q1 2023	Q3 2025	2 years newer on RTX 5050
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: L4 datasheet and RTX 5050 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	L4	RTX 5050
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Jarvislabs India	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Spheron Singapore	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.58 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Scaleway France	$0.87 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$1.36 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand