Nvidia L4 vs Nvidia RTX PRO 5000

The RTX PRO 5000 is newer, with 2x the memory and 4.5x the bandwidth. The L4 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on RTX PRO 5000

L4: 24 GB

RTX PRO 5000: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

4.5x higher on RTX PRO 5000

L4: 300 GB/s

RTX PRO 5000: 1,344 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

54% cheaper on L4

L4: $0.27 /GPU/hr

RTX PRO 5000: $0.58 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L4	RTX PRO 5000	Difference
On-demand	$0.88 /GPU/hr from $0.27	-- /GPU/hr from $0.58
Reserved	$0.52 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)	$0.92 /GPU/hr from $0.50 (24 mo)	44% cheaper on L4
Spot	$0.29 /GPU/hr from $0.13	-- /GPU/hr from $0.14

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 spot on the RTX PRO 5000: 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 PRO 5000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L4	RTX PRO 5000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	48 GB GDDR7	2x more on RTX PRO 5000
Bandwidth	300 GB/s	1,344 GB/s	4.5x higher on RTX PRO 5000
Bus width	192-bit	512-bit	2.7x wider on RTX PRO 5000
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	1,032 TFLOPS	RTX PRO 5000 only
FP8	242 TFLOPS	516 TFLOPS	2.1x higher on RTX PRO 5000
FP16 / BF16	121 TFLOPS	258 TFLOPS	2.1x higher on RTX PRO 5000
INT8	242 TOPS	516 TOPS	2.1x higher on RTX PRO 5000
FP32	30.3 TFLOPS	65 TFLOPS	2.1x higher on RTX PRO 5000
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	72 W	300 W	4.2x higher on RTX PRO 5000
Released	Q1 2023	Q1 2025	2 years newer on RTX PRO 5000
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: L4 datasheet and RTX PRO 5000 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 PRO 5000
Vast.ai USA	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.58 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.82 /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	--
Database Mart USA	--	$0.50 /GPU/hr Reserved
Contabo Germany	--	$1.08 /GPU/hr Reserved