Best Low-Power Cloud GPUs Under 250 W — May 2026
GPUs in the 150-250W band — most professional cards and many production-class data-center GPUs sit here.
NVIDIA
64 GB
A16
GDDR6
Ampere
$0.47/hr
NVIDIA
24 GB
A30
HBM2e
Ampere
$0.25/hr
NVIDIA
24 GB
L4
GDDR6
Ada Lovelace
$0.39/hr
NVIDIA
16 GB
T4
GDDR6
Turing
$0.08/hr
NVIDIA
16 GB
A2
GDDR6
Ampere
$0.22/hr
NVIDIA
8 GB
P4
GDDR5
Pascal
$0.16/hr
NVIDIA
32 GB
RTX 5000 Ada
GDDR6
Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA
24 GB
RTX A5000
GDDR6
Ampere
NVIDIA
24 GB
RTX 4500 Ada
GDDR6
Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA
20 GB
RTX 4000 Ada
GDDR6
Ada Lovelace
$0.76/hr
NVIDIA
16 GB
RTX A4000
GDDR6
Ampere
NVIDIA
16 GB
RTX 4060 Ti
GDDR6
Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA
12 GB
RTX 4070
GDDR6X
Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA
8 GB
RTX 3070
GDDR6
Ampere
NVIDIA
8 GB
RTX 4060
GDDR6
Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA
8 GB
GTX 1080
GDDR5X
Pascal
A16 vs A30 vs L4 — top picks from this guide
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A16
Ampere · 64 GB
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A30
Ampere · 24 GB
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L4
Ada Lovelace · 24 GB
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| Specifications | |||
| Manufacturer | NVIDIA | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| VRAM | 64 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB HBM2e | 24 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 800 GB/s | 933 GB/s | 300 GB/s |
| FP16 (Tensor) | 72 TFLOPS | 165 TFLOPS | 121 TFLOPS |
| FP32 | 18 TFLOPS | 10.3 TFLOPS | 30.3 TFLOPS |
| TDP | 250 W | 165 W | 72 W |
| Release Year | 2021 | 2021 | 2023 |
| Segment | Data center | Data center | Data center |
| Cloud Pricing | |||
| Cheapest On-Demand | $0.47/hr | $0.25/hr | $0.39/hr |
| Providers | 2 | 2 | 1 |
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