P4 vs RTX 3070: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the P4 when you want the lower hourly rate and the specs are otherwise a wash. Choose the RTX 3070 when RTX 3070 pricing or availability works better where you're deploying.
Both the P4 and the RTX 3070 ship with 8 GB of VRAM.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. P4 from $0.069/GPU/hr; RTX 3070 from $0.143/GPU/hr. The P4 is 52% cheaper at the entry rate.
P4
Good for inference workloads on older-generation hardware
RTX 3070
Good for inference and small-scale training workloads
Last updated: 2026-10-10 21:40:34 UTCRefreshes hourly
Specs side by side
| Spec | P4 | RTX 3070 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | – | 448 GB/s |
| Architecture | Pascal | Ampere |
| Compute capability | 6.1 | 8.6 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16 | FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4 |
| Peak FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS | – | 81.3 TFLOPS |
| Max board power (TDP) | – | 220W |
| Form factor | PCIe | – |
| Regions | 1 | 1 |
On-demand price
| Rate | P4 | RTX 3070 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $0.069/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) | $0.143/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) |
Which is better for AI: P4 or RTX 3070?
Choose the P4 when you want the lower hourly rate and the specs are otherwise a wash. Choose the RTX 3070 when RTX 3070 pricing or availability works better where you're deploying.
P4 vs RTX 3070: common questions
Is the P4 or the RTX 3070 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the P4 when you want the lower hourly rate and the specs are otherwise a wash. Choose the RTX 3070 when RTX 3070 pricing or availability works better where you're deploying.
Is the P4 or the RTX 3070 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the P4 starts at $0.069/GPU/hr (median $0.069/GPU/hr) and the RTX 3070 starts at $0.143/GPU/hr (median $0.143/GPU/hr). The P4 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 52%.
What is the difference between the P4 and the RTX 3070?
Both cards report 8 GB of VRAM; the P4 is a Pascal part and the RTX 3070 is Ampere (compute capability 6.1 vs 8.6); only the RTX 3070 supports BF16, INT4 compute. On price, the P4 lists from $0.069/GPU/hr and the RTX 3070 from $0.143/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the P4 and the RTX 3070?
The P4 is listed in 1 region and the RTX 3070 in 1 region right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the P4 vs the RTX 3070?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $69 on the P4 and $143 on the RTX 3070, a difference of $74 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the P4 have compared to the RTX 3070?
Both the P4 and the RTX 3070 ship with 8 GB of VRAM.
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 P4 page and RTX 3070 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 P4 VRAM calculator and the RTX 3070 VRAM calculator, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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