A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Pascal and one Turing: 8 GB GDDR5 against 8 GB GDDR6, 2.3x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 2080, and NVLink 50 GB/s on the RTX 2080 where the P4 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 26 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- From
- $0.65 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.08 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | P4 | RTX 2080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.65 | $0.08 | 8.2x more expensive on P4 |
| Spot | $0.12 | $0.05 | 2.4x more expensive on P4 |
| Reserved | $0.34 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.81 | $0.08 | 10x more expensive on P4 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
P4 vs RTX 2080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | P4 | RTX 2080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5 | 8 GB GDDR6 | Identical |
| Bandwidth | 192 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 2.3x higher on RTX 2080 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 256-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 40.3 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | 22 TOPS | 161.1 TOPS | 7.3x higher on RTX 2080 |
| FP32 | 5.5 TFLOPS | 10 TFLOPS | 1.8x higher on RTX 2080 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 50 GB/s | NVLink on RTX 2080 only |
| Board power | 75 W | 215 W | 2.9x higher on RTX 2080 |
| Released | Q3 2016 | Q3 2018 | 2 years newer on RTX 2080 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32INT8 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: P4 datasheet and RTX 2080 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | P4 /GPU/hr | RTX 2080 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Google Cloud
|
On-Demand $0.65 | -- |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.08 |
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Our data for Nvidia P4 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 2080 on Sept. 7, 2026.