MI210 vs L40S

The MI210 carries 64GB HBM2e at 1,638 GB/s and strong FP64, while the L40S has 48GB GDDR6 at 864 GB/s with FP8 and better AI framework coverage. Choose MI210 for HPC, L40S for inference and rendering.

Overview

AMD logo AMD MI210

Single-die CDNA 2 data center GPU for HPC and double-precision workloads.

Mid-Range Datacenter

Nvidia logo Nvidia L40S

Cost-effective data center GPU for AI inference and media workloads.

High Performance Datacenter

Memory per GPU

1.3x more on MI210
AMD logo MI210
64 GB HBM2e
Nvidia logo L40S
48 GB GDDR6

Memory bandwidth

1.9x higher on MI210
AMD logo MI210
1,638 GB/s
Nvidia logo L40S
864 GB/s

GPU interconnect

AMD logo MI210
Infinity Fabric 300 GB/s
Nvidia logo L40S
PCIe only

Peak performance (FP16)

2x higher on L40S
AMD logo MI210
181 TFLOPS
Nvidia logo L40S
362 TFLOPS

Vendor peak figures. Sparsity and tensor-core conventions differ between vendors.

Precision support

AMD logo MI210
FP16 BF16 FP32 FP64 INT4 INT8
Nvidia logo L40S
FP8 FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

AMD logo MI210
CDNA2
Nvidia logo L40S
Ada Lovelace

Released

17 months newer on L40S
AMD logo MI210
Q1 2022
Nvidia logo L40S
Q3 2023

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

AMD logo MI210
Not sold on demand
Nvidia logo L40S
$0.55 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

1.3x higher on L40S
AMD logo MI210
$1.04 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo L40S
$1.40 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Spot floor

AMD logo MI210
No spot listings
Nvidia logo L40S
$0.47 / GPU / hr

Full price range

AMD logo MI210
$0.87 - $1.28 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo L40S
$0.47 - $7.58 / GPU / hr

Lowest to highest listing per GPU-hour, across on-demand, spot, reserved and custom.

Providers listing it

32 more on L40S
AMD logo MI210
1
Nvidia logo L40S
33

Price, last 90 days

AMD logo MI210
Not tracked yet
Nvidia logo L40S
−2%

Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market.

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

Offers and availability

How this list works

Order

Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
  3. Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.

The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.

Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.

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Our data for AMD MI210 was last updated on Aug. 24, 2026, and for Nvidia L40S on Aug. 21, 2026.