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A30 vs L40S

Nvidia A30 vs Nvidia L40S

Two Nvidia data center GPUs, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 24 GB HBM2 against 48 GB GDDR6 and 8% more memory bandwidth on the A30.

At a glance

Memory

A30: 24 GB
L40S: 48 GB

2x more on L40S

Memory bandwidth

A30: 933 GB/s
L40S: 864 GB/s

1.1x higher on A30

Cheapest on-demand

A30: $0.29 /GPU/hr
L40S: $0.38 /GPU/hr

24% cheaper on A30

Price comparison

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

Billing	A30	L40S	Difference
On-demand	$0.55 /GPU/hr from $0.29	$1.50 /GPU/hr from $0.38	2.7x more expensive on L40S
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.43 (1 mo)	$1.11 /GPU/hr from $0.60 (12 mo)
Spot	No spot listings	$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 reserved 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	1.1x 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 listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider	A30 /GPU/hr	L40S /GPU/hr
GPU.ai	On-Demand $0.29	On-Demand $0.80
Massed Compute	On-Demand $0.35	On-Demand $0.97
EmpirioLabs AI	On-Demand $0.55	On-Demand $0.80
Sesterce	On-Demand $0.39	On-Demand $0.97
Leafcloud	On-Demand $0.70	--
Exoscale	On-Demand $0.74	--
Leaseweb	Reserved (1mo) $0.43	--
AceCloud	Reserved (12mo) $0.67	--
Lium	--	On-Demand $0.38
Novita	--	On-Demand $0.55
Packet·ai	--	On-Demand $0.92
Runcrate	--	On-Demand $0.97