Nvidia P4 vs Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada

The RTX 4000 Ada is newer, with 2.5x the memory and 88% more bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2.5x more on RTX 4000 Ada

P4: 8 GB

RTX 4000 Ada: 20 GB

Memory bandwidth

88% higher on RTX 4000 Ada

P4: 192 GB/s

RTX 4000 Ada: 360 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

69% cheaper on RTX 4000 Ada

P4: $0.65 /GPU/hr

RTX 4000 Ada: $0.20 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	P4	RTX 4000 Ada
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.65	$0.74 /GPU/hr from $0.20
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.34 (36 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.18 (3 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for on-demand, reserved and spot on the P4 and reserved and spot on the RTX 4000 Ada: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

P4 vs RTX 4000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	P4	RTX 4000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR5	20 GB GDDR6	2.5x more on RTX 4000 Ada
Bandwidth	192 GB/s	360 GB/s	88% higher on RTX 4000 Ada
Bus width	256-bit	160-bit	60% wider on P4
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	213.8 TFLOPS	RTX 4000 Ada only
FP16 / BF16		106.9 TFLOPS
INT8	22 TOPS
FP32	5.5 TFLOPS	26.7 TFLOPS	4.9x higher on RTX 4000 Ada
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	75 W	130 W	73% higher on RTX 4000 Ada
Released	Q3 2016	Q3 2023	7 years newer on RTX 4000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: P4 datasheet and RTX 4000 Ada datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	P4	RTX 4000 Ada
Google Cloud USA	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Vast.ai USA	--	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.28 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	--	$0.87 /GPU/hr On-demand
Akamai Cloud USA	--	$0.52 /GPU/hr On-demand
DigitalOcean USA	--	$0.76 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	On request Reserved