Nvidia RTX 4090 vs Nvidia T4

The RTX 4090 is newer, with 50% more memory and 3.4x the bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

50% more on RTX 4090

RTX 4090: 24 GB

T4: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.4x higher on RTX 4090

RTX 4090: 1,010 GB/s

T4: 300 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

55% cheaper on T4

RTX 4090: $0.33 /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 4090	T4	Difference
On-demand	$0.48 /GPU/hr from $0.33	$0.64 /GPU/hr from $0.15	25% cheaper on RTX 4090
Reserved	$0.52 /GPU/hr from $0.29 (1 mo)	$0.43 /GPU/hr from $0.20 (36 mo)	17% cheaper on T4
Spot	$0.33 /GPU/hr from $0.16	$0.26 /GPU/hr from $0.06	22% cheaper on T4

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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

RTX 4090 vs T4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 4090	T4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6X	16 GB GDDR6	50% more on RTX 4090
Bandwidth	1,010 GB/s	300 GB/s	3.4x higher on RTX 4090
Bus width	384-bit	256-bit	50% wider on RTX 4090
Compute · dense
FP8	330.3 TFLOPS	Not supported	RTX 4090 only
FP16 / BF16	165.2 TFLOPS	65 TFLOPS	2.5x higher on RTX 4090
INT8	660.6 TOPS	130 TOPS	5.1x higher on RTX 4090
FP32	82.6 TFLOPS	8.1 TFLOPS	10x higher on RTX 4090
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	450 W	70 W	6.4x higher on RTX 4090
Released	Q4 2022	Q3 2018	4 years newer on RTX 4090
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: RTX 4090 datasheet and T4 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	RTX 4090	T4
Vast.ai USA	$0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Packet·ai USA	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPUhub Singapore	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lium Distributed	$0.58 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Oblivus USA	$0.64 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Sesterce France	$0.66 /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