L4 vs RTX 6000 Ada: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the RTX 6000 Ada when 48 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the L4 when 23 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
The L4 has 23 GB of VRAM; the RTX 6000 Ada has 48 GB.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. L4 from $0.485/GPU/hr; RTX 6000 Ada from $0.869/GPU/hr. The L4 is 44% cheaper at the entry rate.
L4
Good for inference and light fine-tuning workloads
RTX 6000 Ada
Good for fine-tuning mid-size models and high-throughput inference
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Specs side by side
| Spec | L4 | RTX 6000 Ada |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 23 GB | 48 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 300 GB/s | 960 GB/s |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace |
| Compute capability | 8.9 | 8.9 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 |
| Max board power (TDP) | 72W | 300W |
| Regions | 1 | 3 |
On-demand price
| Rate | L4 | RTX 6000 Ada |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $0.485/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) | $0.869/GPU/hr |
Which is better for AI: L4 or RTX 6000 Ada?
Choose the RTX 6000 Ada when 48 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the L4 when 23 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
L4 vs RTX 6000 Ada: common questions
Is the L4 or the RTX 6000 Ada better for AI?
Short answer: choose the RTX 6000 Ada when 48 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the L4 when 23 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
Is the L4 or the RTX 6000 Ada cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the L4 starts at $0.485/GPU/hr (median $0.485/GPU/hr) and the RTX 6000 Ada starts at $0.869/GPU/hr (median $0.869/GPU/hr). The L4 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 44%.
What is the difference between the L4 and the RTX 6000 Ada?
The L4 has 23 GB of VRAM against the RTX 6000 Ada's 48 GB; both are Ada Lovelace parts; both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the L4 lists from $0.485/GPU/hr and the RTX 6000 Ada from $0.869/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the L4 and the RTX 6000 Ada?
The L4 is listed in 1 region and the RTX 6000 Ada in 3 regions right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the L4 vs the RTX 6000 Ada?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $485 on the L4 and $869 on the RTX 6000 Ada, a difference of $384 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the L4 have compared to the RTX 6000 Ada?
The L4 has 23 GB of VRAM; the RTX 6000 Ada has 48 GB.
Does the L4 or the RTX 6000 Ada support NVLink?
Neither the L4 nor the RTX 6000 Ada has a dedicated GPU-to-GPU interconnect.
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 L4 page and RTX 6000 Ada 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 L4 VRAM calculator and the RTX 6000 Ada VRAM calculator, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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