Nvidia A30 vs Nvidia L40S

The L40S is newer and has 2x the memory, while the A30 has 8% more bandwidth. The A30 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on L40S

A30: 24 GB

L40S: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

8% higher on A30

A30: 933 GB/s

L40S: 864 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

25% cheaper on A30

A30: $0.41 /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	A30	L40S	Difference
On-demand	$0.68 /GPU/hr from $0.41	$1.60 /GPU/hr from $0.55	58% cheaper on A30
Reserved	$0.54 /GPU/hr from $0.38 (12 mo)	$1.09 /GPU/hr from $0.61 (12 mo)	50% cheaper on A30
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29	$1.11 /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 spot on the A30: 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

A30 vs L40S price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A30	L40S	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB HBM2	48 GB GDDR6	2x more on L40S
Bandwidth	933 GB/s	864 GB/s	8% higher on A30
Bus width		384-bit
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	733 TFLOPS	L40S only
FP16 / BF16	165 TFLOPS	362.1 TFLOPS	2.2x higher on L40S
INT8	330 TOPS	733 TOPS	2.2x higher on L40S
FP32	10.3 TFLOPS	91.6 TFLOPS	8.9x higher on L40S
FP64	5.2 TFLOPS	Not supported	A30 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	165 W	350 W	2.1x higher on L40S
Released	Q2 2021	Q3 2023	2 years newer on L40S
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: A30 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	A30	L40S
Sesterce France	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand
Jarvislabs India	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Leafcloud Netherlands	$0.68 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$0.74 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Leaseweb Netherlands	$0.45 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
AceCloud India	$0.67 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Novita USA	--	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand
Packet·ai USA	--	$0.92 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	--	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
UpCloud Finland	--	$1.19 /GPU/hr On-demand