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L4 vs RTX4090

The L4 delivers 1.4× the FP16 compute of the L4 while costing 1.8× more on average, making the RTX4090 138% more cost-efficient per TFLOP.

Spec Comparison

Spec
L4
RTX4090
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace
VRAM
24 GB
24 GB
FP16 TFLOPS
122
165
Memory Bandwidth
300 GB/s
1,008 GB/s
MSRP
$2,500
$1,599
Used/Market Price
$1,800
$1,200

Live Pricing

L4
Cheapest
$0.188/hr
Median
$1.26/hr
Average
$2.50/hr
Providers
9
Instances
374
RTX4090
Cheapest
$0.131/hr
Median
$0.718/hr
Average
$1.01/hr
Providers
3
Instances
96

Cost Efficiency

Metric
L4
RTX4090
$/TFLOP/hr
$0.0104
$0.0044
$/GB-VRAM/hr
$0.0526
$0.0299

Lower $/TFLOP and $/GB-VRAM is better. Based on median hourly pricing.

Provider Availability

Both available on (1)

Only on RTX4090 (2)

L4 Cloud Pricing

374 instances
ProviderGPUsVRAMRegionTypePrice/hr
CHEAPESTAWS1x24 GBUS-EastSpot$0.188Rent
GCP1x24 GBAsia-PacificSpot$0.192Rent
RunPod1x24 GBEUR-IS-1Spot$0.220Rent
RunPod1x24 GBUS-MO-2Spot$0.220Rent
GCP1x24 GBAsia-PacificSpot$0.229Rent
AWS1x24 GBUS-EastSpot$0.250Rent
AWS1x24 GBEU-WestSpot$0.261Rent
GCP1x24 GBAsia-PacificSpot$0.265Rent
AWS1x24 GBAsia-PacificSpot$0.272Rent
AWS1x24 GBAsia-PacificSpot$0.274Rent

RTX4090 Cloud Pricing

96 instances
ProviderGPUsVRAMRegionTypePrice/hr
CHEAPESTVast.ai1x24 GBSpot$0.131Rent
RunPod1x24 GBCASpot$0.200Rent
RunPod1x24 GBFRSpot$0.200Rent
RunPod1x24 GBSESpot$0.200Rent
RunPod1x24 GBSKSpot$0.200Rent
RunPod1x24 GBTTSpot$0.200Rent
RunPod1x24 GBUSSpot$0.200Rent
RunPod1x24 GBEU-RO-1Spot$0.290Rent
RunPod1x24 GBEUR-IS-2Spot$0.290Rent
RunPod1x24 GBUS-CA-2Spot$0.290Rent

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