A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 8 GB GDDR5 against 24 GB GDDR6X and 5.3x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 4090.
At a glance
Updated 18 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- From
- $0.65 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.01 TB/s
- From
- $0.23 /GPU/hr
- 20 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | P4 | RTX 4090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.65 | $0.23 | 2.8x more expensive on P4 |
| Spot | $0.12 | $0.12 | Within 5% |
| Reserved | $0.34 | $0.24 | 29% cheaper on RTX 4090 |
| Median | $0.81 | $0.45 | 45% cheaper on RTX 4090 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
P4 vs RTX 4090 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | P4 | RTX 4090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5 | 24 GB GDDR6X | 3x more on RTX 4090 |
| Bandwidth | 192 GB/s | 1,010 GB/s | 5.3x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 384-bit | 1.5x wider on RTX 4090 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 330.3 TFLOPS | RTX 4090 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 165.2 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | 22 TOPS | 660.6 TOPS | 30x higher on RTX 4090 |
| FP32 | 5.5 TFLOPS | 82.6 TFLOPS | 15x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 75 W | 450 W | 6x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Released | Q3 2016 | Q4 2022 | 6 years newer on RTX 4090 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: P4 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 | P4 /GPU/hr | RTX 4090 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Google Cloud
|
On-Demand $0.65 | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.23 |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.30 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.30 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.32 |
Novita
|
-- | On-Demand $0.33 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.34 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.34 |
Packet·ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.39 |
1 provider list the P4 and 20 the RTX 4090. Every listing is on the P4 page and the RTX 4090 page.
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Our data for Nvidia P4 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4090 on Sept. 7, 2026.