Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia L4

The Nvidia L4 is a data center GPU on the Ada Lovelace architecture, released Q1 2023, with 24 GB GDDR6 and 300 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Mid-Range Datacenter

Nvidia logo Nvidia RTX 5090

The Nvidia RTX 5090 is a consumer GPU on the Blackwell architecture, released Q1 2025, with 32 GB GDDR7 and 1,792 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Mid-Range Consumer

Memory per GPU

1.3x more on RTX 5090
Nvidia logo L4
24 GB GDDR6
Nvidia logo RTX 5090
32 GB GDDR7

Memory bandwidth

6x higher on RTX 5090
Nvidia logo L4
300 GB/s
Nvidia logo RTX 5090
1,792 GB/s

GPU interconnect

Nvidia logo L4
PCIe only
Nvidia logo RTX 5090
PCIe only

Peak performance (FP8)

1.7x higher on RTX 5090
Nvidia logo L4
242 TFLOPS
Nvidia logo RTX 5090
419 TFLOPS

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

FP8 per watt

4.6x higher on L4
Nvidia logo L4
3.36 TFLOPS/W
Nvidia logo RTX 5090
0.73 TFLOPS/W

Board power

8x higher on RTX 5090
Nvidia logo L4
72 W
Nvidia logo RTX 5090
575 W

Precision support

Nvidia logo L4
FP8 FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8
Nvidia logo RTX 5090
FP4 FP8 FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

Nvidia logo L4
Ada Lovelace
Nvidia logo RTX 5090
Blackwell

Released

2 years newer on RTX 5090
Nvidia logo L4
Q1 2023
Nvidia logo RTX 5090
Q1 2025

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

1.3x higher on L4
Nvidia logo L4
$0.33 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 5090
$0.25 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

1.4x higher on L4
Nvidia logo L4
$0.90 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 5090
$0.65 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Spot floor

1.8x higher on RTX 5090
Nvidia logo L4
$0.10 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 5090
$0.19 / GPU / hr

Providers listing it

2 more on RTX 5090
Nvidia logo L4
16
Nvidia logo RTX 5090
18

Price, last 90 days

Nvidia logo L4
+3%
Nvidia logo RTX 5090
Too volatile to report

Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market.

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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Offers and availability

How this list works

Order

Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
  3. Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.

The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.

Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.

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Our data for Nvidia L4 was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5090 on Aug. 31, 2026.