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P100 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 P100
$0.045/hr
QuickPod · median $0.10 · 2 providers
CHEAPEST T4
$0.070/hr
SpotGPUs · median $1.09 · 16 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
P100
live panel, 2026-09-27
| P100 | T4 | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| ARCHITECTURE | Pascal | Turing |
| LAUNCHED | 2016 | 2018 |
| MEMORY | 16 GB HBM2 | 16 GB GDDR6 |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 732 GB/s | 320 GB/s |
| TENSOR COMPUTE | 18.7-21.2 TFLOPS FP16 (first-generation FP16 support; no tensor cores) | 65 TFLOPS FP16 tensor (130 TOPS INT8) |
| POWER DRAW | 250-300 W | 70 W |
| INTERCONNECT | NVLink 1.0 (SXM2) or PCIe 3.0 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
HOW TO CHOOSE
P100 vs T4
Same 16 GB, two generations newer, with tensor cores. The T4 wins for any ML use.
Workload fit
P100: legacy cuda and hpc, teaching and coursework, modern llm work. T4: small-model inference, video transcoding, fine-tuning.
P100 VS T4 - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, P100 or T4?
By today's published on-demand rates: P100 starts at $0.045/GPU/hr (median $0.10, 2 providers) and T4 starts at $0.070/GPU/hr (median $1.09, 16 providers). The cheapest live listing is the P100 at QuickPod. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
P100 or T4 - which should I rent?
P100: The P100 was the first deep-learning datacenter GPU - 2016's Pascal flagship, the first with FP16 and HBM2. 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 P100 and T4?
2 providers publish P100 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.
Full pricing: P100 · T4 · all comparisons