Nvidia P4
Legacy inference card for lightweight, cost-sensitive deployments.
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You can start using a P4 for $0.25/hr per GPU (spot instance). It's a low-risk price point for smaller workloads compared to the market high of $1.90/hr.
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| Provider | GPUs | Total VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Billing | $/GPU/h | Total/h | Availability | |
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Google Cloud
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1x P4 1x P4 8GB (n1-standard-4-p4-1) | 8GB | 4 | 15GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $1.17 | $1.17 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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1x P4 1x P4 8GB (n1-standard-8-p4-1) | 8GB | 8 | 30GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $1.41 | $1.41 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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1x P4 1x P4 8GB (n1-standard-16-p4-1) | 8GB | 16 | 60GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $1.90 | $1.90 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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1x P4 1x P4 8GB (n1-standard-16-p4-1) | 8GB | 16 | 60GB | Spot Variable spot pricing with potential interruptions. | $0.32 | $0.32 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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2x P4 2x P4 8GB (n1-standard-4-p4-2) | 16GB | 4 | 15GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $1.05 | $2.09 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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1x P4 1x P4 8GB (n1-standard-8-p4-1) | 8GB | 8 | 30GB | Spot Variable spot pricing with potential interruptions. | $0.28 | $0.28 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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2x P4 2x P4 8GB (n1-standard-8-p4-2) | 16GB | 8 | 30GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $1.17 | $2.34 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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1x P4 1x P4 8GB (n1-standard-4-p4-1) | 8GB | 4 | 15GB | Reserved (36mo) Reserved capacity with a 3-year minimum commitment. | $0.53 | $0.53 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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1x P4 1x P4 8GB (n1-standard-4-p4-1) | 8GB | 4 | 15GB | Spot Variable spot pricing with potential interruptions. | $0.26 | $0.26 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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1x P4 1x P4 8GB (n1-standard-8-p4-1) | 8GB | 8 | 30GB | Reserved (36mo) Reserved capacity with a 3-year minimum commitment. | $0.64 | $0.64 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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1x P4 1x P4 8GB (n1-standard-4-p4-1) | 8GB | 4 | 15GB | Reserved (12mo) Reserved capacity with a 1-year minimum commitment. | $0.59 | $0.59 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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2x P4 2x P4 8GB (n1-standard-16-p4-2) | 16GB | 16 | 60GB | Spot Variable spot pricing with potential interruptions. | $0.28 | $0.56 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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1x P4 1x P4 8GB (n1-standard-16-p4-1) | 8GB | 16 | 60GB | Reserved (36mo) Reserved capacity with a 3-year minimum commitment. | $0.86 | $0.86 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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1x P4 1x P4 8GB (n1-standard-8-p4-1) | 8GB | 8 | 30GB | Reserved (12mo) Reserved capacity with a 1-year minimum commitment. | $0.73 | $0.73 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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2x P4 2x P4 8GB (n1-standard-8-p4-2) | 16GB | 8 | 30GB | Spot Variable spot pricing with potential interruptions. | $0.26 | $0.52 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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2x P4 2x P4 8GB (n1-standard-16-p4-2) | 16GB | 16 | 60GB | On-Demand Pay-as-you-go pricing. No term commitments. | $1.41 | $2.83 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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2x P4 2x P4 8GB (n1-standard-4-p4-2) | 16GB | 4 | 15GB | Spot Variable spot pricing with potential interruptions. | $0.25 | $0.50 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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1x P4 1x P4 8GB (n1-standard-16-p4-1) | 8GB | 16 | 60GB | Reserved (12mo) Reserved capacity with a 1-year minimum commitment. | $1.01 | $1.01 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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2x P4 2x P4 8GB (n1-standard-4-p4-2) | 16GB | 4 | 15GB | Reserved (36mo) Reserved capacity with a 3-year minimum commitment. | $0.47 | $0.94 | Available | View |
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Google Cloud
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2x P4 2x P4 8GB (n1-standard-8-p4-2) | 16GB | 8 | 30GB | Reserved (36mo) Reserved capacity with a 3-year minimum commitment. | $0.53 | $1.05 | Available | View |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why choose the P4?
8GB GDDR5 at very low cost. INT8 inference support. Suitable for lightweight, cost-sensitive inference deployments.
When is the P4 not a good fit?
Only 8GB VRAM on Pascal architecture with no Tensor Cores. Only viable for very lightweight legacy inference or basic video transcoding.
Are P4 prices going up or down?
On-demand pricing has increased by about 133% since July 2025, from $0.54 to $1.26/hr per GPU.
What size AI models can the P4 run?
With 8GB of VRAM, the P4 is mainly limited to small quantized models and lightweight GPU workloads.
How much VRAM does the P4 have?
The P4 has 8GB of VRAM. Multi-GPU setups increase total memory, but that memory is not automatically pooled across GPUs.
What is the P4's memory bandwidth?
The P4 has 192 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Higher bandwidth helps with faster data transfer between GPU memory and compute cores.
What data types does the P4 support?
The P4 supports 3 precision formats. Training: FP16, FP32. Inference: INT8.
Does the P4 support NVLink?
No. The P4 is a PCIe-only GPU with no NVLink, so it is better suited to single-GPU inference and smaller-scale workloads than large distributed training jobs.
How much does the P4 cost per hour?
P4 pricing currently ranges from $0.25/hr to $1.90/hr per GPU, depending on the provider, instance type, and billing model.
How much does the P4 cost per month?
At 720 hours per month, one P4 can cost between $177.95 to $1,370.30 per month, depending on the provider. Reserved and spot pricing can lower that further.
Which cloud providers offer the P4?
The P4 is available from 1 cloud provider: Google Cloud.
Can I rent the P4 in the cloud?
Yes. We currently track 36 P4 listings across 1 cloud providers:
Billing type Listings Avg $/GPU/hr On-demand 9 $1.26/hr Reserved 18 $0.60/hr Spot 9 $0.27/hr
Technical Specifications
| Feature | Specification |
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| GPU Architecture | NVIDIA Pascal™ |
| Single-Precision Performance | 5.5 TeraFLOPS* |
| Integer Operations (INT8) | 22 TOPS* (Tera-Operations per Second) |
| GPU Memory | 8 GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 192 GB/s |
| System Interface | Low-Profile PCI Express Form Factor |
| Max Power | 75W |
| Enhanced Programmability | Yes |
| ECC Protection | Yes |
| Server-Optimized for Data Center | Yes |
| Hardware-Accelerated Video Engine | 1x Decode Engine, 2x Encode Engine |
| * With Boost Clock Enabled |
Source: official Nvidia P4 datasheet.
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