GPU comparison
L4 vs T4: specs and rental prices
NVIDIA L4 against NVIDIA T4: 24 GB against 16 GB of memory, lowest listed on-demand price $0.80 against $0.53 per GPU-hour. Specs from NVIDIA, prices as of Oct 25, 2026.
In short
- The L4 lists 24 GB of GPU memory against 16 GB for the T4: 1.5× higher.
- The T4 lists 320 GB/s of memory bandwidth against 300 GB/s for the L4: 1.07× higher.
- Maximum power is listed at 72 W for the L4 and 70 W for the T4.
- Not every figure can be compared: at least one vendor page does not publish: FP8 tensor throughput; TF32 tensor throughput; FP64 throughput; GPU-to-GPU interconnect.
- The lowest listed on-demand price is $0.53 per GPU-hour for the T4 (AWS) and $0.80 for the L4 (AWS).
- Per GB of GPU memory that is $0.034 per hour for the L4 and $0.033 for the T4.
This summary is generated from the tables below. Prices were last checked Oct 25, 2026. A listing not re-checked for 7 days is greyed and left out of every lowest-price figure; after 14 days it is removed from the page.
Specifications side by side
| Specification | L4 | T4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPU memory | 24 GB | 16 GB | L4 1.5× higher |
| Memory type | Not published | GDDR6 | — |
| Memory bandwidth | 300 GB/s | 320 GB/s | T4 1.07× higher |
| FP8 tensor throughput | 485 TFLOPS (with sparsity) | Not published | — |
| FP16 / BF16 tensor throughput | 242 TFLOPS (with sparsity) | 65 TFLOPS (basis not stated) | Not compared: the vendors state the figures on different bases |
| TF32 tensor throughput | 120 TFLOPS (with sparsity) | Not published | — |
| Maximum power | 72 W | 70 W | L4 1.03× higher |
| CUDA cores | Not published | 2,560 | — |
Compared versions: L4 and T4. The figure in the stronger cell is shaded; power is shown without a winner. Two throughput figures are compared only when both vendors state them on the same basis (both with sparsity, or both dense), and “derived” means a total the vendor publishes divided by the GPU count it publishes. Full tables with sources: L4 specifications · T4 specifications.
Rental prices
| Rental price | L4 | T4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest listed on-demand price | $0.80 per GPU-hour · AWS · checked Oct 25, 2026 | $0.53 per GPU-hour · AWS · checked Oct 25, 2026 | L4 1.53× higher |
| Lowest listed spot price | No fresh listing | $0.21 per GPU-hour · Microsoft Azure · checked Oct 25, 2026 | — |
| Price per GB of memory | $0.034 per GB of GPU memory per hour | $0.033 per GB of GPU memory per hour | L4 1.02× higher |
| Fresh listings | 4 from 2 providers | 6 from 2 providers | — |
Prices cover every version and instance size the providers list, so they are not tied to the versions compared above; the price per GB of memory divides the lowest fresh on-demand price by the memory of the compared version. Listed prices are not like for like across providers. See every listing: L4 prices · T4 prices.
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