Nvidia P4 vs Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada

The RTX 5880 Ada is newer, with 6x the memory and 5x the bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

6x more on RTX 5880 Ada

P4: 8 GB

RTX 5880 Ada: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

5x higher on RTX 5880 Ada

P4: 192 GB/s

RTX 5880 Ada: 960 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

25% cheaper on RTX 5880 Ada

P4: $0.65 /GPU/hr

RTX 5880 Ada: $0.49 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	P4	RTX 5880 Ada
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.65	-- /GPU/hr from $0.49
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.34 (36 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11	-- /GPU/hr from $0.27

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 on-demand and spot on the RTX 5880 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 5880 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	P4	RTX 5880 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR5	48 GB GDDR6	6x more on RTX 5880 Ada
Bandwidth	192 GB/s	960 GB/s	5x higher on RTX 5880 Ada
Bus width	256-bit	384-bit	50% wider on RTX 5880 Ada
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	554.2 TFLOPS	RTX 5880 Ada only
FP16 / BF16		277.1 TFLOPS
INT8	22 TOPS
FP32	5.5 TFLOPS	69.3 TFLOPS	13x higher on RTX 5880 Ada
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	75 W	285 W	3.8x higher on RTX 5880 Ada
Released	Q3 2016	Q1 2024	7 years newer on RTX 5880 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8