A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Pascal and one Ampere: 8 GB GDDR5 against 12 GB GDDR6X and 4.8x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 3080 Ti.
At a glance
Updated 10 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- From
- $0.65 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 912 GB/s
- From
- $0.20 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | P4 | RTX 3080 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.65 | $0.20 | 3.3x more expensive on P4 |
| Spot | $0.12 | $0.08 | 34% cheaper on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Reserved | $0.34 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.81 | $0.53 | 35% cheaper on RTX 3080 Ti |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
P4 vs RTX 3080 Ti price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | P4 | RTX 3080 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5 | 12 GB GDDR6X | 1.5x more on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Bandwidth | 192 GB/s | 912 GB/s | 4.8x higher on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 384-bit | 1.5x wider on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 68.2 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | 22 TOPS | 272.8 TOPS | 12x higher on RTX 3080 Ti |
| FP32 | 5.5 TFLOPS | 34.1 TFLOPS | 6.2x higher on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 75 W | 350 W | 4.7x higher on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Released | Q3 2016 | Q2 2021 | 5 years newer on RTX 3080 Ti |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32INT8 | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: P4 datasheet and RTX 3080 Ti 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 3080 Ti /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Google Cloud
|
On-Demand $0.65 | -- |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.20 |
Exoscale
|
-- | On-Demand $0.79 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.18 |
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Our data for Nvidia P4 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti on Sept. 7, 2026.