Nvidia RTX A2000 vs Nvidia L40S

The L40S is newer, with 4x the memory and 3x the bandwidth. The RTX A2000 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

4x more on L40S

RTX A2000: 12 GB

L40S: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

3x higher on L40S

RTX A2000: 288 GB/s

L40S: 864 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

68% cheaper on RTX A2000

RTX A2000: $0.12 /GPU/hr

L40S: $0.38 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX A2000	L40S
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12	$1.65 /GPU/hr from $0.38
Reserved	No reserved listings	$0.98 /GPU/hr from $0.61 (12 mo)
Spot	No spot listings	$1.10 /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 on-demand on the RTX A2000: 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

RTX A2000 vs L40S price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX A2000	L40S	Difference
Memory
Capacity	12 GB GDDR6	48 GB GDDR6	4x more on L40S
Bandwidth	288 GB/s	864 GB/s	3x higher on L40S
Bus width	192-bit	384-bit	2x wider on L40S
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	733 TFLOPS	L40S only
FP16 / BF16	31.9 TFLOPS	362.1 TFLOPS	11x higher on L40S
INT8		733 TOPS
FP32	8 TFLOPS	91.6 TFLOPS	11x higher on L40S
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	70 W	350 W	5x higher on L40S
Released	Q3 2021	Q3 2023	2 years newer on L40S
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

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

Source: RTX A2000 datasheet and L40S datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	RTX A2000	L40S
Runpod USA	$0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lium Distributed	--	$0.38 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Runcrate USA	--	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
EmpirioLabs AI USA	--	$0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand
UpCloud Finland	--	$1.19 /GPU/hr On-demand
Crusoe USA	--	$1.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Scaleway France	--	$1.65 /GPU/hr On-demand
Spheron Singapore	--	$2.11 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Lyceum Germany	--	$2.19 /GPU/hr On-demand