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RTX 2070 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 RTX 2070
$0.020/hr
Salad · median $0.07 · 2 providers
CHEAPEST T4
$0.070/hr
SpotGPUs · median $1.09 · 16 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
RTX 2070
live panel, 2026-09-27
| RTX 2070 | T4 | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| ARCHITECTURE | Turing | Turing |
| LAUNCHED | 2018 | 2018 |
| MEMORY | 8 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 448 GB/s | 320 GB/s |
| TENSOR COMPUTE | 7.5 TFLOPS FP32; 1st-gen tensor cores | 65 TFLOPS FP16 tensor (130 TOPS INT8) |
| POWER DRAW | 175 W | 70 W |
| INTERCONNECT | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
HOW TO CHOOSE
RTX 2070 vs T4
Same vintage, different market - the T4's 16 GB and datacenter drivers make it the better cheap inference card despite lower clocks.
Workload fit
RTX 2070: learning and dev, 7b inference. T4: small-model inference, video transcoding, fine-tuning.
RTX 2070 VS T4 - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, RTX 2070 or T4?
By today's published on-demand rates: RTX 2070 starts at $0.020/GPU/hr (median $0.07, 2 providers) and T4 starts at $0.070/GPU/hr (median $1.09, 16 providers). The cheapest live listing is the RTX 2070 at Salad. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
RTX 2070 or T4 - which should I rent?
RTX 2070: The 2070 introduced consumer tensor cores in 2018. 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 RTX 2070 and T4?
2 providers publish RTX 2070 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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