Nvidia L4 vs Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000

Both have 24 GB of memory. The Quadro RTX 6000 has 2.2x the bandwidth and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

L4: 24 GB

Quadro RTX 6000: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.2x higher on Quadro RTX 6000

L4: 300 GB/s

Quadro RTX 6000: 672 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

50% cheaper on Quadro RTX 6000

L4: $0.27 /GPU/hr

Quadro RTX 6000: $0.13 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L4	Quadro RTX 6000
On-demand	$0.88 /GPU/hr from $0.27	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13
Reserved	$0.51 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12 (12 mo)
Spot	$0.41 /GPU/hr from $0.13	No spot listings

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 on-demand and reserved on the Quadro RTX 6000: 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 Quadro RTX 6000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L4	Quadro RTX 6000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	300 GB/s	672 GB/s	2.2x higher on Quadro RTX 6000
Bus width	192-bit	384-bit	2x wider on Quadro RTX 6000
Compute · dense
FP8	242 TFLOPS	Not supported	L4 only
FP16 / BF16	121 TFLOPS	130.5 TFLOPS	8% higher on Quadro RTX 6000
INT8	242 TOPS	261 TOPS	8% higher on Quadro RTX 6000
FP32	30.3 TFLOPS	16.3 TFLOPS	86% higher on L4
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 100 GB/s	NVLink on Quadro RTX 6000 only
Board power	72 W	295 W	4.1x higher on Quadro RTX 6000
Released	Q1 2023	Q3 2018	5 years newer on L4
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: L4 datasheet and Quadro RTX 6000 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	Quadro RTX 6000
Vast.ai USA	$0.32 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Jarvislabs India	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
UpCloud Finland	$0.69 /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	--
Akamai Cloud USA	--	$1.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lambda Labs USA	--	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand