A workstation GPU against a consumer card, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 8 GB GDDR5 against 24 GB GDDR6X and 4.2x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 4090.
At a glance
Updated 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 243 GB/s
- From
- $0.05 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.01 TB/s
- From
- $0.23 /GPU/hr
- 18 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | P4000 | RTX 4090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.05 | $0.23 | 4.3x more expensive on RTX 4090 |
| Spot | $0.04 | $0.15 | 3.6x more expensive on RTX 4090 |
| Reserved | $0.06 | $0.27 | 4.3x more expensive on RTX 4090 |
| Median | $0.28 | $0.41 | 30% cheaper on P4000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
P4000 vs RTX 4090 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | P4000 | RTX 4090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5 | 24 GB GDDR6X | 3x more on RTX 4090 |
| Bandwidth | 243 GB/s | 1,010 GB/s | 4.2x 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 | Not supported | 660.6 TOPS | RTX 4090 only |
| FP32 | 5.3 TFLOPS | 82.6 TFLOPS | 16x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 105 W | 450 W | 4.3x higher on RTX 4090 |
| Released | Q1 2017 | Q4 2022 | 6 years newer on RTX 4090 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: P4000 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 | P4000 /GPU/hr | RTX 4090 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.05 | On-Demand $0.32 |
Paperspace
|
On-Demand $0.51 | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.23 |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.30 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.30 |
Novita
|
-- | On-Demand $0.33 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.34 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.34 |
Packet·ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.39 |
2 providers list the P4000 and 18 the RTX 4090. Every listing is on the P4000 page and the RTX 4090 page.
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Our data for Nvidia P4000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4090 on Sept. 7, 2026.