The T4 has 2x the memory and 34% more bandwidth. The RTX 3050 is newer and cheaper right now.
At a glance
Memory
2x more on T4
- RTX 3050
- 8 GB
- T4
- 16 GB
Memory bandwidth
34% higher on T4
- RTX 3050
- 224 GB/s
- T4
- 300 GB/s
Cheapest on-demand
53% cheaper on RTX 3050
- RTX 3050
- $0.07 /GPU/hr
- T4
- $0.15 /GPU/hr
Price comparison
Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.
| Billing | RTX 3050 | T4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | -- /GPU/hr from $0.07 | $0.64 /GPU/hr from $0.15 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.43 /GPU/hr from $0.20 (36 mo) | |
| Spot | -- /GPU/hr from $0.03 | $0.26 /GPU/hr from $0.06 |
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 and spot on the RTX 3050: 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
RTX 3050 vs T4 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 3050 | T4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 | 2x more on T4 |
| Bandwidth | 224 GB/s | 300 GB/s | 34% higher on T4 |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 256-bit | 2x wider on T4 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 18.2 TFLOPS | 65 TFLOPS | 3.6x higher on T4 |
| INT8 | 72.8 TOPS | 130 TOPS | 79% higher on T4 |
| FP32 | 9.1 TFLOPS | 8.1 TFLOPS | 12% higher on RTX 3050 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 130 W | 70 W | 86% higher on RTX 3050 |
| Released | Q1 2022 | Q3 2018 | 3 years newer on RTX 3050 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 3050 datasheet and T4 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.
| Provider | RTX 3050 | T4 |
|---|---|---|
Salad
Distributed
|
$0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- |
Vast.ai
USA
|
-- | $0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Zenlayer
USA
|
-- | $0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe |
Theta EdgeCloud
Distributed
|
-- | $0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Hugging Face
USA
|
-- | $0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Google Cloud
USA
|
-- | $0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand |
AWS
USA
|
-- | $0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Azure
USA
|
-- | $0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Cerebrium
USA
|
-- | $0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand |
1 provider list the RTX 3050 and 11 the T4. Every listing is on the RTX 3050 page and the T4 page.
Similar GPUs
Other comparisons in the same class.
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Nvidia RTX 3060
12 GB GDDR6 · 61% more bandwidth than the RTX 3050
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Nvidia RTX 4060
8 GB GDDR6 · 21% more bandwidth than the RTX 3050
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Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti
8 GB GDDR6 · 2x the bandwidth of the RTX 3050
From $0.06 /GPU/hr Compare
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Nvidia L40S
48 GB GDDR6 · 2.9x the bandwidth of the T4
From $0.38 /GPU/hr Compare
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Nvidia L4
24 GB GDDR6 · released Q1 2023
From $0.32 /GPU/hr Compare
Our data for Nvidia RTX 3050 was last updated on Sept. 14, 2026, and for Nvidia T4 on Sept. 14, 2026.