Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia RTX A2000

The Nvidia RTX A2000 is a workstation GPU on the Ampere architecture, released Q3 2021, with 12 GB GDDR6 and 288 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Budget Workstation

Nvidia logo Nvidia L40S

The Nvidia L40S is a data center GPU on the Ada Lovelace architecture, released Q3 2023, with 48 GB GDDR6 and 864 GB/s memory bandwidth.

High Performance Datacenter

Memory per GPU

4x more on L40S
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12 GB GDDR6
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48 GB GDDR6

Memory bandwidth

3x higher on L40S
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288 GB/s
Nvidia logo L40S
864 GB/s

GPU interconnect

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PCIe only
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PCIe only

Peak performance (FP16)

11x higher on L40S
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31.9 TFLOPS
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362.1 TFLOPS

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

FP16 per watt

2.3x higher on L40S
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0.46 TFLOPS/W
Nvidia logo L40S
1.03 TFLOPS/W

Board power

5x higher on L40S
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70 W
Nvidia logo L40S
350 W

Precision support

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FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8
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FP8 FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

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Ampere
Nvidia logo L40S
Ada Lovelace

Released

2 years newer on L40S
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Q3 2021
Nvidia logo L40S
Q3 2023

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

Source: RTX A2000 datasheet and L40S datasheet.

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

11x higher on L40S
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$0.05 /GPU/hr
Nvidia logo L40S
$0.55 /GPU/hr

Typical rate

14x higher on L40S
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$0.11 /GPU/hr
Nvidia logo L40S
$1.50 /GPU/hr

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

Spot floor

15x higher on L40S
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$0.03 /GPU/hr
Nvidia logo L40S
$0.47 /GPU/hr

Providers listing it

32 more on L40S
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3
Nvidia logo L40S
35

Price, last 90 days

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Too few providers pricing it
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−3%

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

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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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 Nvidia RTX A2000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia L40S on Sept. 7, 2026.