Best Cloud GPUs for Video Transcoding — May 2026
Transcoding-optimised GPUs — typically NVIDIA T4, L4, A2, and similar low-power data-center cards.
L4 vs T4 vs P4 — top picks from this guide
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L4
Ada Lovelace · 24 GB
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T4
Turing · 16 GB
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P4
Pascal · 8 GB
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| Specifications | |||
| Manufacturer | NVIDIA | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Turing | Pascal |
| VRAM | 24 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 300 GB/s | 320 GB/s | 192 GB/s |
| FP16 (Tensor) | 121 TFLOPS | 65 TFLOPS | — |
| FP32 | 30.3 TFLOPS | 8.1 TFLOPS | 5.5 TFLOPS |
| TDP | 72 W | 70 W | 75 W |
| Release Year | 2023 | 2018 | 2016 |
| Segment | Data center | Data center | Data center |
| Cloud Pricing | |||
| Cheapest On-Demand | $0.39/hr | $0.08/hr | $0.16/hr |
| Providers | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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