Intel Gaudi 2 vs Nvidia L40S

The Gaudi 2 has 2x the memory and 2.8x the bandwidth. 4 providers list it, against 37 for the L40S.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on Gaudi 2

Gaudi 2: 96 GB

L40S: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.8x higher on Gaudi 2

Gaudi 2: 2,450 GB/s

L40S: 864 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

47% cheaper on L40S

Gaudi 2: $1.04 /GPU/hr

L40S: $0.55 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	Gaudi 2	L40S	Difference
On-demand	$1.16 /GPU/hr from $1.04	$1.60 /GPU/hr from $0.55	28% cheaper on Gaudi 2
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.59 (12 mo)	$1.10 /GPU/hr from $0.61 (12 mo)
Spot	No spot listings	$0.99 /GPU/hr from $0.74

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for reserved on the Gaudi 2: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

Gaudi 2 vs L40S price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	Gaudi 2	L40S	Difference
Memory
Capacity	96 GB HBM2e	48 GB GDDR6	2x more on Gaudi 2
Bandwidth	2,450 GB/s	864 GB/s	2.8x higher on Gaudi 2
Bus width		384-bit
Compute · dense
FP8	865 TFLOPS	733 TFLOPS	18% higher on Gaudi 2
FP16 / BF16	432 TFLOPS	362.1 TFLOPS	19% higher on Gaudi 2
INT8		733 TOPS
FP32		91.6 TFLOPS
Platform
Interconnect	RoCE 600 GB/s	PCIe only	RoCE on Gaudi 2 only
Board power	600 W	350 W	71% higher on Gaudi 2
Released	Q2 2022	Q3 2023	15 months newer on L40S
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: Gaudi 2 datasheet and L40S datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	Gaudi 2	L40S
Sesterce France	$1.21 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	$1.43 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Cyfuture AI India	$1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Denvr Canada	$1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Novita USA	--	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand
Packet·ai USA	--	$0.92 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	--	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand
UpCloud Finland	--	$1.19 /GPU/hr On-demand