AMD Radeon Pro V520
vs
Nvidia L40S
Two data center GPUs, one RDNA and one Ada Lovelace: 8 GB HBM2 against 48 GB GDDR6 and 69% more memory bandwidth on the L40S.
At a glance
Updated 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 512 GB/s
- From
- $0.38 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.55 /GPU/hr
- 34 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | Radeon Pro V520 | L40S | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.38 | $0.55 | 31% cheaper on Radeon Pro V520 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.74 | |
| Reserved | $0.19 | $0.60 | 3.2x more expensive on L40S |
| Median | $0.87 | $1.60 | 46% cheaper on Radeon Pro V520 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
Radeon Pro V520 vs L40S price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | Radeon Pro V520 | L40S | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB HBM2 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 6x more on L40S |
| Bandwidth | 512 GB/s | 864 GB/s | 1.7x higher on L40S |
| Bus width | 2,048-bit | 384-bit | 5.3x wider on Radeon Pro V520 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 733 TFLOPS | L40S only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 14.8 TFLOPS | 362.1 TFLOPS | 25x higher on L40S |
| INT8 | 733 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 7.4 TFLOPS | 91.6 TFLOPS | 12x higher on L40S |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 225 W | 350 W | 1.6x higher on L40S |
| Released | Q2 2020 | Q3 2023 | 3 years newer on L40S |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: Radeon Pro V520 datasheet and L40S datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | Radeon Pro V520 /GPU/hr | L40S /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
AWS
|
On-Demand $0.38 | -- |
Novita
|
-- | On-Demand $0.55 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.80 |
Packet·ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.92 |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $0.97 |
Massed Compute
|
-- | On-Demand $0.97 |
Runcrate
|
-- | On-Demand $0.97 |
UpCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $1.19 |
Koyeb
|
-- | On-Demand $1.20 |
1 provider list the Radeon Pro V520 and 34 the L40S. Every listing is on the Radeon Pro V520 page and the L40S page.
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Our data for AMD Radeon Pro V520 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia L40S on Sept. 7, 2026.