B300 vs P4: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the B300 when 288 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the P4 when 8 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
The B300 has 288 GB of VRAM; the P4 has 8 GB.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. B300 from $9.89/GPU/hr; P4 from $0.069/GPU/hr. The P4 is 99% cheaper at the entry rate.
B300
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
P4
Good for inference workloads on older-generation hardware
Last updated: 2026-10-10 22:35:27 UTCRefreshes hourly
Specs side by side
| Spec | B300 | P4 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 288 GB | 8 GB |
| Architecture | Blackwell Ultra | Pascal |
| Compute capability | 10.3 | 6.1 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16 |
| Form factor | – | PCIe |
| Regions | 1 | 1 |
On-demand price
| Rate | B300 | P4 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $9.89/GPU/hr | $0.069/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) |
Which is better for AI: B300 or P4?
Choose the B300 when 288 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the P4 when 8 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
B300 vs P4: common questions
Is the B300 or the P4 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the B300 when 288 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the P4 when 8 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
Is the B300 or the P4 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the B300 starts at $9.89/GPU/hr (median $9.89/GPU/hr) and the P4 starts at $0.069/GPU/hr (median $0.069/GPU/hr). The P4 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 99%.
What is the difference between the B300 and the P4?
The B300 has 288 GB of VRAM against the P4's 8 GB; the B300 is a Blackwell Ultra part and the P4 is Pascal (compute capability 10.3 vs 6.1); only the B300 supports BF16, FP8, INT4 compute. On price, the B300 lists from $9.89/GPU/hr and the P4 from $0.069/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the B300 and the P4?
The B300 is listed in 1 region and the P4 in 1 region right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the B300 vs the P4?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $9,889 on the B300 and $69 on the P4, a difference of $9,820 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the B300 have compared to the P4?
The B300 has 288 GB of VRAM; the P4 has 8 GB.
How this comparison is calculated
Every price is normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using the same pipeline as every other pricing surface on Aquanode, and only the cheapest qualifying offer per provider is shown. A dash means that provider does not currently list that GPU.
Architecture, compute capability and supported precisions come from each vendor's published datasheet for that generation, not from the marketplace feed. This page regenerates at most once per hour.
Memory bandwidth, tensor TFLOPS, NVLink/interconnect and max board power are the same verified-from-datasheet figures shown on each model's own B300 page and P4 page, which link the primary vendor source for that model. A dash here means Aquanode hasn't verified that figure from a primary source yet, never a guess.
Go further
Check what fits in each card's memory with the B300 VRAM calculator and the P4 VRAM calculator, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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