A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 16 GB HBM2 against 24 GB GDDR6X, 38% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 4090, and NVLink 160 GB/s on the P100 where the RTX 4090 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 16 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 732 GB/s
- From
- $1.27 /GPU/hr
- 5 providers
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.01 TB/s
- From
- $0.23 /GPU/hr
- 18 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | P100 | RTX 4090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $1.27 | $0.23 | 5.4x more expensive on P100 |
| Spot | $0.77 | $0.16 | 4.8x more expensive on P100 |
| Reserved | $0.12 | $0.27 | 2.2x more expensive on RTX 4090 |
| Median | $1.53 | $0.44 | 3.5x more expensive on P100 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
P100 vs RTX 4090 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | P100 | RTX 4090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB HBM2 | 24 GB GDDR6X | 1.5x more on RTX 4090 |
| Bandwidth | 732 GB/s | 1,010 GB/s | 1.4x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Bus width | 4,096-bit | 384-bit | 11x wider on P100 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 330.3 TFLOPS | RTX 4090 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 18.7 TFLOPS | 165.2 TFLOPS | 8.8x higher on RTX 4090 |
| INT8 | Not supported | 660.6 TOPS | RTX 4090 only |
| FP32 | 9.3 TFLOPS | 82.6 TFLOPS | 8.9x higher on RTX 4090 |
| FP64 | 4.7 TFLOPS | Not supported | P100 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 160 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on P100 only |
| Board power | 250 W | 450 W | 1.8x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Released | Q2 2016 | Q4 2022 | 6 years newer on RTX 4090 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32FP64 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: P100 datasheet and RTX 4090 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | P100 /GPU/hr | RTX 4090 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Scaleway
|
On-Demand $1.42 | -- |
Oracle Cloud
|
On-Demand $1.27 | -- |
Google Cloud
|
On-Demand $1.51 | -- |
Alibaba Cloud
|
On-Demand $1.55 | -- |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.12 | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.23 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.30 |
Novita
|
-- | On-Demand $0.33 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.34 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.34 |
Packet·ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.39 |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.58 |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $0.66 |
5 providers list the P100 and 18 the RTX 4090. Every listing is on the P100 page and the RTX 4090 page.
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Our data for Nvidia P100 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4090 on Sept. 7, 2026.