A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Pascal and one Blackwell: 8 GB GDDR5 against 48 GB GDDR7 and 7x the memory bandwidth on the RTX PRO 5000.
At a glance
Updated 18 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- From
- $0.65 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.34 TB/s
- From
- $0.64 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | P4 | RTX PRO 5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.65 | $0.64 | Within 5% |
| Spot | $0.12 | $0.13 | 10% cheaper on P4 |
| Reserved | $0.34 | $0.50 | 31% cheaper on P4 |
| Median | $0.81 | $0.81 | Within 5% |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
P4 vs RTX PRO 5000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | P4 | RTX PRO 5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5 | 48 GB GDDR7 | 6x more on RTX PRO 5000 |
| Bandwidth | 192 GB/s | 1,344 GB/s | 7x higher on RTX PRO 5000 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 512-bit | 2x wider on RTX PRO 5000 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 1,032 TFLOPS | RTX PRO 5000 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 516 TFLOPS | RTX PRO 5000 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 258 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | 22 TOPS | 516 TOPS | 23x higher on RTX PRO 5000 |
| FP32 | 5.5 TFLOPS | 65 TFLOPS | 12x higher on RTX PRO 5000 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 75 W | 300 W | 4x higher on RTX PRO 5000 |
| Released | Q3 2016 | Q1 2025 | 8 years newer on RTX PRO 5000 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: P4 datasheet and RTX PRO 5000 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 PRO 5000 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Google Cloud
|
On-Demand $0.65 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.64 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.82 |
Database Mart
|
-- | Reserved (24mo) $0.50 |
Contabo
|
-- | Reserved (1mo) $1.11 |
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Our data for Nvidia P4 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX PRO 5000 on Sept. 7, 2026.