NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA Tesla P4 — GPU Comparison (Apr 2026)
NVIDIA RTX A6000 (48GB GDDR6, 155 TFLOPS FP16, Ampere) vs NVIDIA Tesla P4 (8GB GDDR5, Pascal). Cloud pricing: NVIDIA RTX A6000 from $0.30/hr, NVIDIA Tesla P4 from $0.16/hr. Compare specs, VRAM, performance, and pricing across 4 cloud providers to find the best GPU for your AI workload.
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NVIDIA RTX A6000
48GB GDDR6 · Ampere
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NVIDIA Tesla P4
8GB GDDR5 · Pascal
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| Specifications | |||
| Manufacturer | NVIDIA | NVIDIA | |
| Architecture | Ampere | Pascal | |
| VRAM | 48 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR5 | |
| Memory Bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 192 GB/s | |
| FP16 (Tensor) | 155.0 TFLOPS | N/A | |
| FP32 | 38.7 TFLOPS | 5.5 TFLOPS | |
| TDP | 300W | 75W | |
| Release Year | 2020 | 2016 | |
| Segment | Professional | Data center | |
| Best For | Professional visualization AI inference content creation | Legacy inference video transcoding | |
| Cloud Pricing | |||
| Cheapest On-Demand | $0.30/hr | $0.16/hr | |
| Cheapest Spot | $0.33/hr | — | |
| Providers | 3 | 1 | |
| Provider Pricing (On-Demand) | |||
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$0.30/hr | N/A | |
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$0.49/hr | N/A | |
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$0.54/hr | N/A | |
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N/A | $0.16/hr | |
NVIDIA RTX A6000
NVIDIA Tesla P4
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Cherry Servers vs Vast.ai vs RunPod - GPU Provider Comparison (April 2026)
Side-by-side comparison of Cherry Servers vs Vast.ai vs RunPod. Quickly compare GPU models, hourly pricing, spot instances, billing granularity, VRAM, regions, developer tools, Kubernetes support, and compliance to narrow down your cloud GPU provider shortlist. Data updated April 2026.
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Cherry Servers
Bare metal GPU servers with 24 years of hosting experience and full hardware-level control.
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Vast.ai
Instant GPUs. Transparent Pricing.
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RunPod
The cloud built for AI — deploy and scale GPU workloads from serverless inference to instant multi-node clusters on demand.
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| Overview | |||
| Trustpilot Rating | 4.6 | 4.4 | 3.7 |
| Headquarters | Lithuania | United States | United States |
| Provider Type | N/A | GPU Marketplace | GPU-Focused |
| Best For | AI training inference fine-tuning rendering research HPC generative AI deep learning | AI training inference fine-tuning Stable Diffusion batch processing research LLM serving generative AI | AI training inference fine-tuning Stable Diffusion batch processing rendering research LLM serving generative AI |
| GPU Hardware | |||
| GPU Models | A100 A40 A16 A10 A2 Tesla P4 | B200 H200 H100 SXM H100 NVL A100 SXM A100 PCIe RTX 5090 RTX 5080 RTX 5070 Ti RTX 6000 Pro RTX 6000 Ada RTX 4500 Ada RTX A6000 RTX A5000 RTX A4000 L40S L40 A40 A10 RTX 4090 RTX 4080 RTX 4070 Ti RTX 4070 RTX 4060 Ti RTX 4060 RTX 3090 Ti RTX 3090 RTX 3080 Ti RTX 3080 RTX 3070 Ti RTX 3070 Tesla V100 Tesla T4 A2 GTX 1080 | B300 B200 H200 H100 SXM H100 PCIe H100 NVL MI300X A100 SXM A100 PCIe RTX 5090 RTX PRO 6000 L40S L40 RTX 6000 Ada RTX 5000 Ada RTX A6000 RTX A5000 RTX 4090 RTX 4080 SUPER RTX 4080 RTX 4070 Ti RTX 3090 Ti RTX 3090 RTX 3080 Ti RTX 3080 RTX 3070 A40 A30 A2 L4 |
| Max VRAM (GB) | 80 | 192 | 288 |
| Max GPUs/Instance | 2 | 8 | 8 |
| Interconnect | PCIe | NVLink, InfiniBand | NVLink |
| Pricing | |||
| Starting Price ($/hr) | $0.16/hr | $0.06/hr | $0.06/hr |
| Billing Granularity | Per-hour | Per-second | Per-second |
| Spot/Preemptible | No | Yes | Yes |
| Reserved Discounts | N/A | Up to 50% (1-6 month reserved) | 15-29% (1-month to 1-year plans) |
| Free Credits | None | Small test credit on signup | $5-$500 bonus after first $10 spend |
| Egress Fees | N/A | Varies by host ($/TB) | None (Free) |
| Storage | NVMe SSD, Elastic Block Storage ($0.071/GB/mo) | Varies by host ($/GB/hr, charged while instance exists) | Container/Volume ($0.10/GB/mo), Idle Volume ($0.20/GB/mo), Network Storage ($0.07/GB/mo 1TB) |
| Infrastructure | |||
| Regions | Lithuania, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, US, Singapore (6 locations) | 500+ locations, 40+ data centers | 31 global regions |
| Uptime SLA | 99.97% | No formal SLA (host reliability scores visible) | 99.99% |
| Developer Experience | |||
| Frameworks | PyTorch TensorFlow CUDA (bare metal — full stack control) | PyTorch TensorFlow CUDA vLLM ComfyUI | PyTorch TensorFlow JAX ONNX CUDA |
| Docker Support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SSH Access | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Jupyter Notebooks | No | Yes | Yes |
| API / CLI | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Setup Time | Minutes | Seconds | Instant |
| Kubernetes Support | Yes | No | No |
| Business Terms | |||
| Min Commitment | None | None | None |
| Compliance | ISO 27001 ISO 20000-1 GDPR PCI DSS | SOC 2 Type 2 HIPAA GDPR CCPA | SOC 2 Type II |
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