A workstation GPU against a data center card, one Maxwell and one Pascal: both with 8 GB GDDR5 and 192 GB/s memory bandwidth, released 15 months apart.
At a glance
Updated 7 hours ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- From
- $0.45 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- From
- $0.65 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | M4000 | P4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.45 | $0.65 | 31% cheaper on M4000 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.12 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.34 | |
| Median | $0.45 | $0.81 | 45% cheaper on M4000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
M4000 vs P4 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | M4000 | P4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5 | 8 GB GDDR5 | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 192 GB/s | 192 GB/s | Identical |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 256-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| INT8 | Not supported | 22 TOPS | P4 only |
| FP32 | 2.6 TFLOPS | 5.5 TFLOPS | 2.1x higher on P4 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 120 W | 75 W | 1.6x higher on M4000 |
| Released | Q2 2015 | Q3 2016 | 15 months newer on P4 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP32 | FP16FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: M4000 datasheet and P4 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | M4000 /GPU/hr | P4 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Paperspace
|
On-Demand $0.45 | -- |
Google Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.65 |
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Our data for Nvidia M4000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia P4 on Sept. 7, 2026.