Nvidia A4000 vs Nvidia L40

The L40 is newer, with 3x the memory and 93% more bandwidth. The A4000 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on L40

A4000: 16 GB

L40: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

93% higher on L40

A4000: 448 GB/s

L40: 864 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

84% cheaper on A4000

A4000: $0.07 /GPU/hr

L40: $0.46 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A4000	L40	Difference
On-demand	$0.18 /GPU/hr from $0.07	$1.05 /GPU/hr from $0.46	82% cheaper on A4000
Reserved	$0.18 /GPU/hr from $0.06 (6 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.70
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06	$0.78 /GPU/hr from $0.40

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 A4000 and reserved on the L40: 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

A4000 vs L40 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A4000	L40	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	48 GB GDDR6	3x more on L40
Bandwidth	448 GB/s	864 GB/s	93% higher on L40
Bus width	256-bit	384-bit	50% wider on L40
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	362 TFLOPS	L40 only
FP16 / BF16	76.7 TFLOPS	181.1 TFLOPS	2.4x higher on L40
INT8		362 TOPS
FP32	19.2 TFLOPS	90.5 TFLOPS	4.7x higher on L40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	140 W	300 W	2.1x higher on L40
Released	Q2 2021	Q4 2022	2 years newer on L40
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: A4000 datasheet and L40 datasheet.

Where to rent them

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

Provider	A4000	L40
Vast.ai USA	$0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.46 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.78 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand
Hyperstack UK	$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand
Spheron Singapore	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	$1.06 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Sesterce France	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Thunder Compute USA	--	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	--	$0.86 /GPU/hr On-demand
Oblivus USA	--	$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe