NVIDIA Tesla T4 Server

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NVIDIA Tesla T4 Server is the most affordable data center GPU cloud server available from Immers Cloud. At just $0.23/hr, the Tesla T4 is optimized for inference workloads with its low power consumption and INT8/FP16 Tensor Cores.

Specifications

Component Specification
GPU NVIDIA Tesla T4 (Turing architecture)
VRAM 16 GB GDDR6
CUDA Cores 2,560
Memory Bandwidth 320 GB/s
INT8 Performance 130 TOPS
FP16 Performance 65 TFLOPS
TDP 70W
Starting Price From $0.23/hr

Performance

The Tesla T4 was designed from the ground up for inference, not training:

  • 70W TDP — lowest power consumption of any data center GPU
  • 130 TOPS INT8 — excellent for quantized inference
  • 16 GB GDDR6 — sufficient for most inference models
  • Turing Tensor Cores — FP16, INT8, INT4 acceleration

The T4 is not suitable for training large models — its 2,560 CUDA cores and 320 GB/s bandwidth are far below training-oriented GPUs. However, for inference it punches well above its price:

  • Runs BERT-class models at high throughput
  • Handles computer vision inference efficiently
  • Supports TensorRT optimization for maximum inference speed
  • INT8 quantization achieves near-FP16 accuracy at 2x throughput

Best Use Cases

  • Production inference serving (highest cost efficiency)
  • API endpoints for ML models
  • Real-time NLP inference (sentiment analysis, text classification)
  • Computer vision inference (object detection, OCR)
  • Edge-like inference at data center reliability
  • Batch inference processing
  • ML model serving with TensorRT optimization

Pros and Cons

Advantages

  • $0.23/hr — cheapest data center GPU available
  • 70W TDP — extremely power efficient
  • ECC GDDR6 for data integrity
  • 130 TOPS INT8 — excellent inference throughput
  • 16 GB VRAM handles most inference models
  • Data center-grade reliability

Limitations

  • Not suitable for model training (too slow)
  • Only 2,560 CUDA cores
  • 320 GB/s memory bandwidth is limited
  • Older Turing architecture
  • No NVLink support
  • FP32 performance is poor

Pricing

Available from Immers Cloud starting at $0.23/hr — the lowest price in the entire GPU lineup. Monthly cost for 24/7: approximately $166. Unbeatable for always-on inference.

Recommendation

The NVIDIA Tesla T4 Server is the ultimate budget inference GPU. If you're deploying ML models to production and need the lowest possible per-query cost, the T4 with TensorRT optimization is the clear winner. Do NOT use this for training — even a NVIDIA RTX 3080 Server at $0.48/hr will train 5–10x faster. For inference with more VRAM, see the NVIDIA Tesla A2 Server or NVIDIA Tesla A10 Server.

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