RTX 4080 vs T4: cloud rental cost compared

You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 4080 from $0.158/GPU/hr across 2 providers; T4 from $0.126/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The T4 is 20% cheaper at the entry rate.

RTX 4080
Good for inference and light fine-tuning workloads
$0.158/hr
Lowest / GPU
$0.297/hr
Median / GPU
16 GB
VRAM
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
T4
Good for inference workloads on older-generation hardware
$0.126/hr
Lowest / GPU
$0.126/hr
Median / GPU
16 GB
VRAM
Turing
Architecture

Specs side by side

Spec
RTX 4080
T4
VRAM
16 GB
16 GB
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Turing
Compute capability
8.9
7.5
Precisions in hardware
FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4
FP32, FP16, INT4
Interconnect
PCIe
PCIe
Lowest $/GPU/hr
$0.158
$0.126
Median $/GPU/hr
$0.297
$0.126
Providers
2
1
Regions
2
1

Price by provider

Provider
RTX 4080 $/GPU/hr
T4 $/GPU/hr
Akash
$0.158
$0.126
Vast.ai
$0.197

RTX 4080 vs T4: common questions

Is the RTX 4080 or the T4 cheaper to rent?

On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 4080 starts at $0.158/GPU/hr (median $0.297/GPU/hr across 2 providers) and the T4 starts at $0.126/GPU/hr (median $0.126/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The T4 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 20%.

What is the difference between the RTX 4080 and the T4?

Both cards report 16 GB of VRAM; the RTX 4080 is an Ada Lovelace part and the T4 is Turing (compute capability 8.9 vs 7.5); only the RTX 4080 supports BF16, FP8 compute. On price, the RTX 4080 lists from $0.158/GPU/hr and the T4 from $0.126/GPU/hr.

Which cloud providers offer the RTX 4080 and the T4?

2 providers list the RTX 4080 (Akash and Vast.ai) and 1 list the T4 (Akash), across 2 and 1 region respectively. Both are available from Akash.

How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 4080 vs the T4?

At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $158 on the RTX 4080 and $126 on the T4 — a difference of $32 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.

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.

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