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A10 vs T4
Specs from the chip makers' datasheets; prices from the live Compute Cafe panel, refreshed hourly. Every rate is an on-demand published price with a source receipt.
CHEAPEST A10
$0.150/hr
SpotGPUs · median $1.56 · 11 providers
CHEAPEST T4
$0.070/hr
SpotGPUs · median $1.09 · 16 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
T4
live panel, 2026-09-27
| A10 | T4 | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| ARCHITECTURE | Ampere | Turing |
| LAUNCHED | 2021 | 2018 |
| MEMORY | 24 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 600 GB/s | 320 GB/s |
| TENSOR COMPUTE | 125 TFLOPS FP16 tensor dense (250 sparse) | 65 TFLOPS FP16 tensor (130 TOPS INT8) |
| POWER DRAW | 150 W | 70 W |
| INTERCONNECT | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
HOW TO CHOOSE
T4 vs A10
The A10 adds 8 GB more VRAM and nearly double the compute at 150 W. Pick it when a model does not fit in 16 GB or request rates saturate the T4.
Workload fit
A10: mid-size inference, virtual workstations. T4: small-model inference, video transcoding, fine-tuning.
A10 VS T4 - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, A10 or T4?
By today's published on-demand rates: A10 starts at $0.150/GPU/hr (median $1.56, 11 providers) and T4 starts at $0.070/GPU/hr (median $1.09, 16 providers). The cheapest live listing is the T4 at SpotGPUs. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
A10 or T4 - which should I rent?
A10: The A10 fills Ampere's single-slot inference slot: 24 GB, respectable FP16 throughput, 150 W. T4: The T4 is NVIDIA's low-power inference workhorse: a 70-watt single-slot card that became the default cost floor for model serving. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.
Where can I rent A10 and T4?
11 providers publish A10 rates and 16 publish T4 rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.
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