Best Cloud GPUs for Budget AI Workloads — May 2026
Budget-tagged GPUs — the cheapest options that still deliver usable AI throughput.
T4 vs RTX 3090 vs RTX 4060 Ti — top picks from this guide
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T4
Turing · 16 GB
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RTX 3090
Ampere · 24 GB
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RTX 4060 Ti
Ada Lovelace · 16 GB
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| Specifications | |||
| Manufacturer | NVIDIA | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| Architecture | Turing | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| VRAM | 16 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6X | 16 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 320 GB/s | 936 GB/s | 288 GB/s |
| FP16 (Tensor) | 65 TFLOPS | 142 TFLOPS | 22.1 TFLOPS |
| FP32 | 8.1 TFLOPS | 35.6 TFLOPS | 11 TFLOPS |
| TDP | 70 W | 350 W | 165 W |
| Release Year | 2018 | 2020 | 2023 |
| Segment | Data center | Consumer | Consumer |
| Cloud Pricing | |||
| Cheapest On-Demand | $0.08/hr | $0.12/hr | — |
| Providers | 1 | 3 | 0 |
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