A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 8 GB GDDR5 against 48 GB GDDR6 and 5x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 5880 Ada.
At a glance
Updated 13 hours ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- From
- $0.65 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- From
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Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | P4 | RTX 5880 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.65 | -- | |
| Spot | $0.12 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.34 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.81 | -- |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
P4 vs RTX 5880 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
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 | 1.5x 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 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: P4 datasheet and RTX 5880 Ada 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 5880 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Google Cloud
|
On-Demand $0.65 | -- |
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Our data for Nvidia P4 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.