A workstation GPU against a consumer card, one Maxwell and one Ampere: 8 GB GDDR5 against 8 GB GDDR6 and 17% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 3050.
At a glance
Updated 43 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- From
- $0.45 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 224 GB/s
- From
- $0.07 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | M4000 | RTX 3050 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.45 | $0.07 | 6.4x more expensive on M4000 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.03 | |
| Median | $0.45 | $0.07 | 6.4x more expensive on M4000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
M4000 vs RTX 3050 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | M4000 | RTX 3050 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5 | 8 GB GDDR6 | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 192 GB/s | 224 GB/s | 1.2x higher on RTX 3050 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 128-bit | 2x wider on M4000 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | Not supported | 18.2 TFLOPS | RTX 3050 only |
| INT8 | Not supported | 72.8 TOPS | RTX 3050 only |
| FP32 | 2.6 TFLOPS | 9.1 TFLOPS | 3.5x higher on RTX 3050 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 120 W | 130 W | 1.1x higher on RTX 3050 |
| Released | Q2 2015 | Q1 2022 | 7 years newer on RTX 3050 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP32 | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: M4000 datasheet and RTX 3050 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | M4000 /GPU/hr | RTX 3050 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Paperspace
|
On-Demand $0.45 | -- |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.07 |
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Our data for Nvidia M4000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3050 on Sept. 7, 2026.