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 6000 Ada.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes 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
- $0.55 /GPU/hr
- 14 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | P4 | RTX 6000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.65 | $0.55 | 16% cheaper on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Spot | $0.12 | $0.37 | 3.1x more expensive on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Reserved | $0.34 | $0.56 | 38% cheaper on P4 |
| Median | $0.81 | $0.96 | 16% cheaper on P4 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
P4 vs RTX 6000 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | P4 | RTX 6000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 6x more on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 192 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 5x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 384-bit | 1.5x wider on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 728.5 TFLOPS | RTX 6000 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 364.2 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | 22 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 5.5 TFLOPS | 91.1 TFLOPS | 17x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 75 W | 300 W | 4x higher on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Released | Q3 2016 | Q4 2022 | 6 years newer on RTX 6000 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: P4 datasheet and RTX 6000 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 6000 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Google Cloud
|
On-Demand $0.65 | -- |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.55 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.60 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.65 |
Massed Compute
|
-- | On-Demand $0.79 |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $1.07 |
Runcrate
|
-- | On-Demand $1.07 |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
-- | On-Demand $1.10 |
TensorDock
|
-- | On-Demand $0.86 |
1 provider list the P4 and 14 the RTX 6000 Ada. Every listing is on the P4 page and the RTX 6000 Ada page.
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Our data for Nvidia P4 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.